More than a decade later, Austin Nichols is ready to get back to his roots on the pending One Tree Hill continuation at Netflix.
At Monday’s world premiere of I Know What You Did Last Summer, in which he plays Pastor Judah, the actor revealed whether he’d reprise his role as filmmaker Julian Baker in the revival of the WB/CW drama, which originally ran for nine seasons from 2003 to 2012.
“I would absolutely love to,” he told Deadline. “I spent a lot of years doing that show and fell in love with Wilmington, North Carolina, and made a lot of great friends there. We had a lot of fun. And ultimately, when something still has this kind of excitement around it this many years later, you kinda go, ‘Oh my god! Yeah, why not make more of it? People still watch it and love it.’
“So, I think it could be great. I know that they’re writing scripts, and there’s been some notes and some back and forth. It sounds good. Hopefully we have some good news soon,” added Nichols.
Nichols joined the series with Season 6 in 2008, ending up married to Sophia Bush‘s Brooke Davis with twin sons at the end of the show’s nine-season run.
Austin Nichols and Sophia Bush in ‘One Tree Hill’ (Fred Norris/The CW/Courtesy Everett Collection)
His comments come after we reported in August that a sequel series was in the works at Netflix with Bush and Hilarie Burton-Morgan attached to reprise their roles.
The sequel is said to take place 20 years after the original, following best friends Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer (Burton-Morgan), who are now parents to teens and facing challenges not unfamiliar to what they tackled in the original series like love, insecurities and grief, we understand.
The project hails from writer/executive producer Becky Hartman Edwards and Warner Bros. TV. Danneel Ackles and husband Jensen Ackles are executive producing the project through their Chaos Machine banner with the former in talks to return as Rachel Scott. Emily Moss Wilson is a producer.
