“Before she became the most famous Gemini vegetarian to graduate from Harvard Law, she was just a regular ‘90s high school girl. And all of you are going to get to know her,” Witherspoon wrote about the Elle plot on her Instagram after the series’ official announcement.
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Per Variety, the official logline is “Elle follows Elle Woods in high school as we learn about the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman we came to know and love in the first Legally Blonde film.”
In a press email from September 2024, we actually got a bit more intel about the storyline: “A driven, natural born leader who will always stop to straighten another woman’s crown, Elle’s magnetic personality brightens the world with confidence, vulnerability, and an earnestness that charms everyone around her. Coming of age in the ’90s, Elle will encounter her first love and her first heartbreak, and she will find her moral convictions.”
When and where will Elle premiere?
Though an exact date has yet to be announced, we know Elle will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2025. Speaking to People, Witherspoon revealed that filming for the show will begin in March 2025, so we can likely expect it to premiere as early as the summer or, more likely, towards the latter half of the year.
Who will play Elle Woods in Elle?
So far, we know Witherspoon will be involved in Elle as an executive producer. Still, no casting news has been announced, so we don’t know who will play the titular blonde role yet — though, of course, people are already dreamcasting Witherspoon’s real-life twin daughter Ava Phillippe.
Now, while Phillippe is the most obvious casting choice, she is currently 25, so she is not exactly a teenager. For reference, Witherspoon herself was 25 when the first Legally Blonde movie premiered. And while if there’s anything Euphoria has taught us, it’s that even 30-year-olds can play high schoolers if producers want, that, thankfully, does not seem to be the case for Elle.
