Millennials are getting older and “Girls” is coming rear to see how that’s going.
HBO announced Tuesday that Lena Dunham’s wit volition come back for a constricted five-episode run, alongside its four foremost women and Andrew Rannells reprising their roles.
The first sequence followed aspiring author Hannah Horvath and her allies through the jobs, relationships, and financial doubt of their 20s in New York. It ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, becoming a lightning rod for debates concerning millennial life, feminism, and who gets to conversation for a generation.
Now, Dunham is returning to the characters alongside another decade of perspective.
Here’s everything we cognize concerning the “Girls” revival.
Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells are returning
According to HBO's announcement, Dunham volition reprise her function as Hannah Horvath, alongside Williams as Marnie Michaels, Kirke as Jessa Johansson, and Mamet as Shoshanna Shapiro.
Rannells is additionally returning as Elijah, Hannah’s ex-boyfriend and friend. All four of Dunham’s returning castmates volition assist as co-executive producers.
The revival volition commerce the anarchy of their 20s for the milestone of turning 40
HBO hasn’t revealed a storyline synopsis, but its wit chief, Amy Gravitt, offered a clue concerning the new episodes’ focus.
“We’re thrilled to have Lena rotate her regard from the tumult of one’s twenties to the milestone of turning forty,” Gravitt stated in a statement.
“To say the earth has changed since we final saw Hannah, Marnie, Shoshanna, Jessa, and Elijah is a enormous understatement," Gravitt added, "but we cognize fans — old and new — volition be blessed to see how they’ve grown and relieved to see that they’re motionless the ‘Girls’ we knew way rear when.”
Details concerning their careers, relationships, and anywhere they’re living remain under wraps.
Dunham stated the idea came to her about her 40th birthday
The creator stated nostalgia solitary wasn’t adequate to bring the sequence back.
“We continually stated we would lone come back to 'Girls' if there was a particular narrative we were burning to tell,” Dunham stated in a statement. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a lengthy period I couldn’t fairly image them in the current day. Then, correct about my 40th birthday, they started talking to me in the shower.”
“And, as you may remember, formerly this fivesome starts talking it’s beautiful difficult to get them to stop,” Dunham said.
Adam Driver’s come back hasn’t been confirmed
Driver, who played Hannah’s on-and-off partner Adam Sackler, wasn’t included in HBO’s mold announcement.
That leaves his involvement an open question. His deficiency from the notice doesn’t established whether Adam volition appear in the new episodes.
Driver has multiple movie projects on his slate. He is set to celebrity contrary Anne Hathaway in Ron Howard’s armed forces perform “Alone at Dawn,” scheduled for theatrical publish on Christmas Day 2027. He’s additionally been mold as the villain Mr. Sinister in Marvel’s “X-Men” reboot, due in May 2028.
Judd Apatow is returning, but erstwhile co-showrunner Jenni Konner isn’t confirmed
Dunham volition write, direct, and administrator create the revival. Apatow, an administrator manufacturer on the first series, is additionally returning, alongside administrator producers Ilene S. Landress and Michael P. Cohen.
Konner, who ran the first sequence alongside Dunham, was not listed in HBO's announcement. The brace earlier announced the end of their producing alliance in 2018.
Dunham offered a additional individual document of the separation in her memoir “Famesick,” published this year, describing the breakdown of a association that blended near companionship alongside imaginative collaboration.
Production starts in 2027, but there’s no premiere date yet
According to the HBO announcement, filming is scheduled to commencement next year, a decade after the first series finale.
“Latching,” which aired on April 16, 2017, remaining Hannah adjusting to motherhood in upstate New York, alongside Marnie assisting her lift her son, Grover. Jessa and Shoshanna didn’t appear in the final episode.
HBO has ordered five episodes. HBO has not announced a premiere date or publish schedule.
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Katherine Li is a newsman on Business Insider's West Coast endeavor news team. She covers career, the forthcoming of work, and how AI is changing hiring practices and office trends.Previously, she was a newsroom chap who wrote global breaking news and produced newsletters for Semafor. Before that, she wrote concerning climate policies for The Lever, covered the AAPI community for the SF Chronicle as a freelancer, and wrote concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protests as an intern for The New York Times.She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and a alumnus of the global reporting program at Hong Kong Baptist University alongside minors in French and English literature. Email Katherine at [email protected] and prosecute her on Bluesky @katherineli.bsky.social.
