Twenty years after the release of desperate housewivesShowrunner Marc Cherry is set to revive Wisteria Lane. Interviewed by the magazine People Regarding a possible sequel to the successful series, the writer and showrunner confided his desire to work on a prequel, which would take place in the 60s.
“About 70,000 people asked me if there would be a restart. The truth is that I have some ideas to do it,” he confided.
“I would like to go back to a previous decade. (…) There are times when I say to myself: ‘You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in 1966,'” added Marc Cherry.
“If you do a reboot, you have to have a very good artistic reason for doing it,” the screenwriter continues.
A planned casting according to Eva Longoria
Broadcast for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012, the series desperate housewifecreated by Marc Cherry, it was a real success – followed by more than 24 million viewers during its first season – and left its mark on the small screen.
The show chronicled the travails of Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) and Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), four women from the exclusive American suburb of Wisteria Lane, full of secrets. .
When asked last May, on the sidelines of the Cannes festival, about a possible return of desperate housewifeEva Longoria revealed that a reunion of the series’ cast was planned for the show’s 20th anniversary.
Source: BFM TV
