HBO Max is headed out on the road to Stars Hollow.
The streamer is in production on a documentary about Gilmore Girls, the beloved series that ran from 2000-07. Bonni Cohen (Athlete A, An Inconvenient Sequel) is directing the film from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television and R.J. Cutler’s Sony-based This Machine banner.
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, executive producer Daniel Palladino and star Lauren Graham are all set to take part in the documentary, along with other cast and crew members. HBO Max notes that the film is the first “authorized” documentary about the show, though at least one other independent doc is also in the pipeline. Sherman-Palladino and Graham are also collaborating on a book about the making of Gilmore Girls, which is due for publication in fall 2027.
Warner Bros. TV, a corporate sibling to HBO Max and Warner Horizon, produced Gilmore Girls, which ran for seven seasons on The WB and The CW.
The currently untitled HBO Max documentary will “reveal how the show eclipsed expectations to become a cross-generational phenomenon by unpacking the unique alchemy of the creators, cast, crew, and collaborators,” according to the film’s description. It will also feature previously unseen behind-the-scenes clips, outtakes and script pages.
Following the end of its series run, Gilmore Girls found a long afterlife on cable and streaming, where it receives an annual viewing bump each fall. Netflix also produced a four-episode sequel miniseries, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, in 2016. The series left Netflix at the end of June (A Year in the Life remains available there) and currently steams on Hulu and Prime Video.
The executive producers for the documentary are Mark Blatty, Jane Cha Cutler, R.J. Cutler, Daniel Palladino, Elise Pearlstein, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Trevor Smith. Cohen and Melissa Robledo are producers.
