Tom Everett Scott and June Diane Raphael have joined Prime Video’s Legally Blonde prequel series Elle as parents of Lexi Minetree’s high school version of Reese Witherspoon’s iconic character Elle Wood.
Production on the prequel series starts next Monday, March 31st in Vancouver.
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Elle is set years before the first Legally Blonde movie in 2001, which introduced us to Elle Woods graduating from college and headed to Harvard Law.
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks,
Witherspoon made the series announcement nine months ago.
We should do Elle Woods in high school, . . .I wanted to see who she was before college, before law school — Reese Witherspoon told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
Elle Series:
Working title: PARK LA BREA
Vancouver filming dates: March 31 2025 – July 22 2025.
Showrunners: Laura Kitnell, Caroline Dries (Batwoman).
Cast: Lexi Minetree, Tom Everett Scott, June Diane Raphael.
Soundstages: The Bridge Studios.
Producers: Reese Witherspoon, Hello Sunshine, Marc Platt Productions, Amazon MGM Studios.