Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton Celebrate One Tree Hill Reboot as a Chance to ‘Reclaim Our Turf’ and ‘Honor Our Fans’
One Tree Hillis on the way to being back!
PEOPLE can confirm that a reboot of the popular series is in the early stages of development, following on from the original show’s end twelve years ago.
Original stars Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton are expected to reprise their roles in the reboot as Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer and they will also be executive producing the project with former costar Danneel Ackles (who played Shannon McBain in the original show), per Variety.
Bush and Burton, both 42, both appeared to post about the reboot on Instagram on Friday, Aug. 30, calling it a chance to “reclaim our turf” and “honor fans”
“What if you really can go back home?” The actresses wrote in a joint message in separate posts. “If there’s an opportunity to team with brilliant creatives and build a space where all our friends can show off their talents? Own our history? Reclaim our turf? Honor our fans? Sign us up.”
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The pair then addressed One Tree Hill fans, writing, “There’s only one Tree Hill, after all. And you — the #OTHfam — have shown us that it’s not just an idea. It really is the place where “everything’s better and everything’s safe.”
Alongside the message, Bush and Burton both shared a seemingly recent pH๏τo of the pair posing with Ackles, 45, and Bevin Prince (who also starred in the original series as Bevin Mirskey), with the trio, as the group embraced indoors.
Behind them was a wall covered in flyers with ‘Tree Hill’s Local Showcase’ and ‘Ravens Cheerleader tryouts’ written on some of the posters, referring to One Tree Hill school, indicating the possibility that a scene was being filmed for the reboot.
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Bush also posted on her Instagram page a gif of her character Brooke smiling and shrugging with the caption, “Why? ‘Cause I love you.”
Burton, meanwhile, posted on her page a gif of her character Peyton with the caption, “I guess I’m just a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a b—–.”
One Tree Hill premiered on Sept. 23, 2003. The CW original hit series followed half-brothers Lucas Scott (played by Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and their friends as they navigated their lives growing up in the fictional town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
According to Variety, Warner Bros. Television, which produced the original series of the show, is returning to produce the reboot. The rebooted series is also expected to air on Netflix, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Additional executive producers Becky Hartman Edwards and Ackles’ husband, Jensen Ackles, will also be working on the project, according to the outlet.
Reps for Bush, Burton and Ackles, WBTV and Netflix did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
