Seize your yellow umbrella! After loads of hypothesis, a How I Met Your Mom spinoff was lastly confirmed in April 2021 and diehard followers are satisfied it will likely be legen — watch for it — dary.
Affectionately known as HIMYM, the CBS collection got here to an in depth after 9 seasons in March 2014 — and its controversial finale continued to spark debates on-line for years to return. Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel starred within the unique collection, with Bob Saget narrating.
Shortly after the top of HIMYM, creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas teamed up with Greta Gerwig and author Emily Spivey to work on a pilot for a follow-up collection titled How I Met Your Dad. Although audiences have been desirous to see what the subsequent chapter would convey, the present was not picked up.
It wasn’t for an additional seven years that followers obtained their want and an official HIMYM spinoff was introduced. Hilary Duff, who beforehand fought for a Lizzie McGuire revival, nabbed the starring position in Hulu’s How I Met Your Father in April 2021. She additionally scored a producing credit score.
“I’ve been extremely fortunate in my profession to play some fantastic characters and I’m wanting ahead to taking over the position of Sophie,” the Youthful alum instructed Deadline on the time. “As an enormous fan of How I Met Your Mom, I’m honored and even a little bit nervous that Carter and Craig would belief me with the sequel of their child. [Showrunners] Isaac [Aptaker] and Elizabeth [Berger] are sensible, and I can’t wait to work alongside them and all of their genius. … I understand these are large sneakers to fill and I’m excited to slide my [feet] in there.”
Aptaker and Berger, who labored collectively on NBC’s This Is Us, later instructed The Hollywood Reporter that they have been “so honored to be carrying the torch” for the brand new collection. “We will’t watch for audiences to satisfy Sophie and her crew, and watch them come into their very own and discover love in modern-day New York Metropolis,” the dynamic duo famous. “And we hope no one thinks it’s bizarre that Bob Saget will probably be enjoying outdated Hilary Duff’s voice.”
No hints have been as to who would possibly really take over the narration of Sophie’s journey, however the spinoff is certain to pay homage to HIMYM with out being an actual copy. Nevertheless, longtime followers shouldn’t count on any OG stars to make a cameo.
“I’ve given How I Met Your Mom little or no thought,” Harris teased in March 2018, telling TV Information that “chapter is so full and filled with story” and your entire group was pleased with their “closing lap.”
The Glee alum continued, “I actually simply look again on that chapter with nice fondness. I simply don’t really feel like there’s something left to do, actually.”
Radnor, for his half, has been attempting to place his HIMYM days behind him. “I nearly by no means take into consideration [the show],” he instructed GQ in March 2018. “It’s a bizarre factor, once you haven’t performed one thing in nearly 4 years. However folks will nonetheless come as much as me and say, ‘I simply watched the collection for the eighth time, all over.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s an excessive amount of. You’ve gotta transfer on.’ … It’s such part of sure folks’s lives.”
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