It’s official: Breckin Meyer is part of Paramount+‘s Clueless sequel series as both a writer and star.
During an appearance on the One Question podcast (via Deadline), the actor confirmed that he would reprise his role as Travis Birkenstock in the sequel series. He also revealed that he is part of the writers’ room for the revival.
“I’ve been in the writers’ room on this show they’re doing of Clueless, a new version of Clueless,” Meyer said. “Writing on a character that I played 30 years ago, and trying to figure out what he would say now, and it’s really fun to put it in my head and try to think.”
A Clueless sequel series was reported to be in development at Peacock in April 2025, with Silverstone reprising her role as Cher Horowitz. A year later, Peacock passed on the project, leading to Paramount+ picking it up this past July.
Meyer told One Question that the revival will consist of six episodes. Production is expected to start in 2027. The sequel series will pick up 30 years after the original 1995 film, when beloved Beverly Hills icon Cher Horowitz (Silverstone) has figured out a lot: She’s successful in business and has mastered motherhood — that is, until her daughter’s high school years, and Cher finds that parenting a teenager makes her feel “clueless” all over again.
“When [the new series] came about, I was like, ‘I’m curious, what are you guys thinking?’ When I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s actually pretty damn interesting, so let’s delve into that,'” Meyer said of participating in the revival.
Clueless fans will no doubt be very happy with the current direction the Clueless sequel series is going in, given that the original plan was very different (and weird). In October 2019, CBS announced a small screen continuation centered around Dionne Davenport after Cher goes missing that was described as a “baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sunglasses-wearing, oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when the high school queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong number two Dionne steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans.” This version never made it past the development stage and was scrapped by May 2021.
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