Alicia Silverstone will play Cher Horowitz once again in a new TV series follow-up to the hit 1995 comedy Clueless.
The 48-year-old actor has been set as star and executive producer of an episodic sequel at Peacock. The show will be written and produced by Josh Shwartz and Stephanie Savage, best known for Gossip Girl.
The original film’s writer and director, Amy Heckerling, will also join as an executive producer.
Clueless, loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma, followed the life of a pampered LA teenager and her attempts to matchmake. The film, which also starred Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy, was a sleeper hit at the box office and became an even bigger hit on home video.
The film was followed by a TV series bringing back much of the cast but excluding Silverstone. It was also turned into a stage musical which opened on the West End earlier this year.
“I think people are talking about a [sequel] all the time at all times since the movie happened,” Silverstone said last year. “Has it been 30 years yet? That always is a fun conversation. It’s so lovely to see how people still love that movie. It’s very nice.”
Silverstone went onto star in Batman & Robin and Blast from the Past and has more recently appeared in Reptile, The Lodge and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer. She will reunite with Lanthimos for his next film, Bugonia, also starring Emma Stone. She is also leading an upcoming Christmas romcom for Netflix opposite Oliver Hudson.
She reprised her Clueless role for a Super Bowl advertisement in 2023 for Rakuten.
There had been an attempt to turn Clueless into a mystery-based series back in 2020 which ultimately stalled.
Details on the direction of the new version remain unknown.