The Legally Blonde prequel collection has discovered its Elle Woods.
Amazon Prime Video is at present engaged on a brand new tv collection titled Elle, which can function a prequel to the Legally Blonde movies. Reese Witherspoon beforehand performed Elle Woods in 2001’s Legally Blonde and 2003’s Legally Blonde 2: Purple, White & Blonde.
On Instagram, Witherspoon introduced that Lexi Minetree has been solid as a youthful model of Elle Woods in Elle.
“Enable me to introduce you to the brand new Elle Woods! After watching so many unimaginable auditions for the brand new Elle prequel collection on @PrimeVideo, we lastly discovered our Elle,” Witherspoon wrote. “And right this moment, I bought to interrupt the information myself! Meet @leximinetree.”
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Minetree has beforehand starred in various brief movies and tv motion pictures reminiscent of 2023’s The Paramedic Who Stalked Me and 2024’s Crowdsource Homicide. She additionally appeared in an episode of Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit.
What’s the Legally Blonde prequel collection about?
“Elle follows Elle Woods in highschool as we be taught concerning the life experiences that formed her into the long-lasting younger girl we got here to know and love within the first Legally Blonde movie,” the official logline reads, by way of Selection.
Elle is created by Laura Kittrell, who will function co-showrunner alongside Caroline Dries. Each of them additionally function government producers, as do Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter, Lauren Kisilevsky, and Marc Platt.
“I actually couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about this collection! Followers will get to know the way Elle Woods navigated her world as a youngster along with her distinct character and ingenuity, in ways in which solely our beloved Elle may do,” Witherspoon beforehand stated of the present, by way of Deadline. “What could possibly be higher than that?! I’m extraordinarily grateful to the unimaginable groups at Prime Video and Hey Sunshine – together with our wonderful author Laura Kittrell – for making this dream of mine come true. Legally Blonde is again!”
A premiere date for Elle has not but been introduced.
