The long-in-the-works “Clueless” reboot is set to make a cameo at Peacock. According to Variety, an update of the classic ’90s high school comedy focusing on Dionne is in development at the streamer. The as-yet untitled project will catch up with Dionne after her best friend, Cher, goes missing.
The show is “a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sun-glasses wearing, oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong number two Dionne steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans,” the source describes. “How does Dionne deal with the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school, while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her best friend?”
Hailing from CBS Television Studios, the reboot will be penned and executive produced by “Will & Grace” revival collaborators Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey. Corinne Brinkerhoff (“Jane the Virgin”) is also among the EPs.
News of a “Clueless” reboot first broke in fall 2018. “Girls Trip” scribe Tracy Oliver and “GLOW” writer Marquita Robinson were originally attached to the project.
From writer-director Amy Heckerling, “Clueless” debuted in 1995 — and has since become iconic. Loosely based on Jane Austen’s “Emma,” the comedy sees Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a rich, popular Beverly Hills highschooler, playing matchmaker to friends and teachers but remaining, well, clueless about her own feelings.
Stacey Dash portrayed Dionne in the original film and reprised the role in the ABC/UPN television series. Zurin Villanueva played the character in “Clueless: The Musical,” which opened Off-Broadway in 2018.
Another beloved ’90s title is also getting an update, and shifting the focus of the original story to a Black woman’s perspective. “Jodie,” a spinoff of “Daria” centering on Jodie Landon, Daria’s witty, overachieving classmate, is in the works at Comedy Central. Tracee Ellis Ross is voicing the titular character and exec producing.