Earlier this month it was announced that Warner Bros. TV has tapped Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to oversee a reboot of the hit series Pretty Little Liars, and now comes word that the streamer has officially granted the project a straight-to-series order.
Aguirre-Sacasa is serving as showrunner on the new series, titled Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, and writing with Lindsay Calhoon Bring (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). The official description for the new series reads:
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls — a brand-new set of Little Liars — find themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago…as well as their own. In the dark, coming-of-RAGE, horror-tinged drama Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, we find ourselves miles away from Rosewood, but within the existing Pretty Little Liars universe — in a brand new town, with a new generation of Little Liars.
“We’re such huge fans of what I. Marlene King and her iconic cast created, we knew that we had to treat the original series as #CANON and do something different,” states Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring. “So we’re leaning into the suspense and horror in this reboot, which hopefully will honor what the fans loved about the hit series, while weaving in new, unexpected elements.”
“Roberto and Lindsay are expanding the Pretty Little Liars universe with more murder, mysteries, and scandal, and we can’t wait,” added Sarah Aubrey, head of original content, HBO Max.
Based on the book series by Sara Shepard, the original Pretty Little Liars ran for seven seasons on Freeform/ABC Family, where it ranked as the #1 scripted series on all of cable television in the teen girl demographic. It also spawned two spinoffs, Ravenswood and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, which ran for a season apiece.
