Of course, she added, it couldn’t be same-old.
“Lorelai and Luke got married,” Graham said, advancing the plot. “Now, Rory’s maybe having a baby, so it’s not going to be necessarily the two of us circling the gazebo.”
Word eventually got to Sherman-Palladino about the actress’ idea for the most wonderful time of the year.
“The freaking Christmas special,” she cracked to E! News in April. “I’m hearing it from everybody else.”
While Graham’s idea was “very cute,” the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator noted, there were “no talks” about any furtherance of the Gilmore story.
Not that the coffee pot of ideas had run dry. “We never thought that the Netflix movies would happen,” Daniel Palladino told E!. “We’re constantly thinking of stuff for Stars Hollow, because anything kind of quirky-American makes us want to put it into Stars Hollow.”
But, he added, echoing his wife, “There’s no set thing right now.”