EW's Ausiello Was Right, Brittany Snow Heading the Gossip Girl Spinoff

He called it, you gotta give him the props.

THR.com:

Brittany Snow is set to topline the project, a prequel chronicling the wild teen years of Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford) in Los Angeles during the 1980s.

Also cast in the spinoff is Shiloh Fernandez ("Jericho"). The two would be joining previously cast Krysten Ritter.

The spinoff centers on then-Lily Rhodes (Snow), who, after a falling-out with her parents, is forced to move in with her sister, Carol (Ritter), the black sheep of the family.

Overnight, Lily has to transition from a life of luxury and education at a wealthy Montecito boarding school to living deep in the San Fernando Valley she once made fun of and going to public school. Caught between two worlds, Lily dives into the fast-paced Sunset Strip and the Hollywood lifestyle of the '80s, journeying over the hill to a world of wealth and excess that used to be her own.

You'll meet young Lily in a flashback episode of Gossip Girl (backdoor pilot -- allegedly invented by Ben Silverman - HA!) on May 11th.

Where do you know her from? Click here. Because most of my readers did not see John Tucker Must Die or Prom Night, they were busy watching Battlestar Galactica reruns frame by frame to find hidden clues about the history of organic memory transfer. Because we geek out like that.

Clippage from, say, an episode of American Dreams? Not a chance, the clips at YouTube are all fanvids with loving sweeps across the visage of Milo Ventimiglia, which is not what you're looking for, at least not right now. But they're there, go look if you must.

How about a clip from the film she was in at Sundance, called The Vicious Kind? 'Cause I totally have one of those and it's after the jump.