Hilary Duff Set To Star In How I Met Your Father, Sequel To HIMYM

Hilary Duff is set to star in the How I Met Your Mother sequel, this time called How I Met Your Father. Duff, who will also be producing the show, will be playing Sophie, the new Ted Mosby. This is also Duff’s first TV project after wrapping Younger and announcing the death of the Lizzie McGuire reboot.

Hilary Duff  News – Sophie Is The New Ted, The Sequel To The Hit Sitcom Has A Straight-To-Series For 10 episodes And Will Air On Hulu

The show which comes from Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger of This Is Us and Love, Victor, as well as the creator’s Carter Bays and Craig Thomas of the original show, already has straight-to-series order for 10 episodes and will air on Hulu.

The show’s description on Hulu reads: “In the near future, Sophie is telling her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.”

Hilary Duff  News – Excitement All-Around As Hillary Duff Asks Fans To “Suit Up” In New Instagram Video

Announcing the news, Duff posted a video on Instagram – asking fans to “suit up!”– accompanied by a statement, that read, “I’ve been incredibly lucky in my career to play some wonderful characters and I’m looking forward to taking on the role of Sophie. As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother, I’m honored and even a little nervous that Carter and Craig would trust me with the sequel of their baby. Isaac and Elizabeth are brilliant, and I can’t wait to work alongside them and all of their genius.

Duff added, “Just fangirling over here getting to join the Hulu Originals and 20th families. I realize these are big shoes to fill and I’m excited to slip my 6 ½’s in there!”

Carter and Bays also thanked fans for waiting so long for a new HIMY story. They said, “Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story: It’s the story of how two writers got lucky enough to make their dream TV show for nine seasons and now get to pass the torch to an inspired new creative team with their own incredible story to tell, the story of How I Met Your Father.”

New executive producers Aptaker and Berger also expressed their excitement over the new project, adding “We are beyond excited to be bringing How I Met Your Father to Hulu. Carter and Craig’s iconic original series revolutionized the half-hour comedy, and we are so honored to be carrying the torch forward for the next generation—and with Hilary Duff no less! We can’t wait for audiences to meet Sophie and her crew, and watch them come into their own and find love in modern-day New York City.”

Hilary Duff News – Not The First Time We’ve Heard About A Sequel, But Quite Possibly The Final Time As It Looks Set To Happen This Time Around

This is not the first time a gender-flipped sequel has been attempted for the show. A show titled How I Met Your Dad, starring Greta Gerwig, with Meg Ryan narrating from the future was meant to air during the 2014—2015 season, but CBS never ordered it. Aptaker and Berger also tried to do a spinoff in 2016, but the focus shifted to This Is Us and that project got put on hold.

The original series starring Josh Radnor as Ted, Cobie Smulders as Robin, Jason Segel as Marshall, Alyson Hannigan as Lily, and Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson ran for nine seasons.