WTAF: Lindsay Lohan Almost Played Blair Waldorf In A ‘Gossip Girl’ Film

In an alternate universe where Blake Lively and Leighton Meester don’t play your favourite frenemies and Dan Humphrey isn’t the mastermind behind the whole thing (sounds like paradise, dunnit?), Lindsay Lohan plays Blair Waldorf in a Gossip Girl movie.

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Before the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar was spun into a TV show by The CW, Warner Bros. originally won the rights and planned on creating a GG flick.

The movie was set to star Lindsay Lohan as Meester’s sassy, headband-wearing Queen B with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to pen the script.

In the film adaptation, Blair would have been the focus rather than Serena van der Woodsen, as per the original summary which read:

“The protagonist is Blair Waldorf, a beauty who is the envy of her friends. Unfortunately, her perfect world unravels as her bitter rival gets kicked out of boarding school and returns to Blair’s private school.”

As this was all unfolding, Lohan was at her prime, having recently starred in Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.

But when the deal ultimately fell through (much like Lohan’s career, don’t @ me), showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage picked up the story for a TV series which is how we got the six salacious seasons of Gossip Girl.

The end.

shoutout to the true queen b

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