We may not be headed to Virgin River just yet, but the cast sure is!
Since we all love a little small-town gossip and great news, here are a few tidbits to spread around and discuss courtesy of Deadline:
Virgin River is back in production today!
While we still won’t get to escape to our favorite town and all the melodrama that ensues there until 2025, at least we know the strike delays are out of the way, and filming is back in motion.
And since the cast loves us so much, they’ll hopefully be teasing us with tidbits to hold us over along the way.
Yes, the Virgin River prequel will center on Mel’s mother, Sarah, and her romantic affair with Everett Reid.
During Virgin River Season 5 Episode 10, we learned that Mel’s sister discovered a series of artifacts from their mother’s past, including a love letter derived from Virgin River decades ago.
That love letter was from a man who was, without a shadow of a doubt, Mel’s biological father.
The Virgin River Christmas special picked up where bombshell revelation left off, with a roller coaster reunion between the two that didn’t go according to plan.
By the special’s end, all was right in the Virgin River world between Mel and Everett, but there are still so many questions about her parents, their past, and this epic but short-lived romance.
So what better way to explore the love story and get to know the fierce, inspiring woman Mel still holds dearer than through a prequel series?
The prequel is currently in development and the search is on for the leads who will embody Sarah and Everett and bring the characters and their beautiful love story to life.
If the leads have half the chemistry and charisma of Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, we’ll be in for a treat.
In the meantime, Virgin River Season 6 will ease us into this by featuring a series of flashbacks to Sarah and Everett in their youth, touching upon the love story that will be expanded into the prequel.
Virgin River’s showrunner Patrick Sean Smith will also write and develop the prequel, and he previously spoke about what he hopes to explore in the sixth season regarding Sarah and Everett’s romance:
“What we’re exploring more in Season 6 is who Everett Reid is, what his backstory is, what his connection to Virgin River was when he met her mother, and then also what it is today,” he said, adding that Season 6 will explore the “relationship of Everett with the town as well as Everett and Mel.”
This pattern of exploring love stories via prequels must be the hottest new thing to come out of Hollywood.
