Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour on Monday 15 January 15, The Wrap said that executive producer Jason Micallef promised the new show would have big changes.

“It’s 2018, it’s not 1988,” Micallef said. “No one’s going to want to watch a girl for 10 episodes follow a guy around, murder people and then whine about it.”

Micallef went on to explain that there would be some “very, very major character changes” for the lead character Veronica Sawyer. While he didn’t go into detail, he said the original dynamics largely remain in place: she is still the “good girl” who has to face down a vicious high school clique.

Meanwhile Brendan Scannell, who plays Heather Duke in the new series, added: “One of the things that we talk about on this show is that power corrupts. Everyone at their core is kind of an asshole and concerned with themselves.

“[In] our sort-of modern retelling we’ve got … these communities that still face discrimination,” he said. “But in our show [they] are turning that on its head and using the internet and using the power of pure self-confidence to trash everybody around them.”

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