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Vanessa Hudgens Clears Up Rumors That She’s Reprising Her “HSM” Role in Disney+ Series
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Good news, wildcats – the fourth “High School Musical” movie is finally coming to fruition . . . just not in the way you might have expected. In a highly meta plot twist, for the fourth season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” the students of East High learn that “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” is being shot on their very own campus. This means that the series itself is going to include “High School Musical 4” and will serve as the host for a massive High School Musical reunion.
The students in “HSMTMTS” also find out that they will be playing extras in the movie, Joshua Bassett, Sofia Wylie, Matt Cornett, and Dara Reneé confirmed at Disney’s D23 Expo on Sept. 10. On Sept. 23, Disney+ announced that they’ll be joined by some familiar faces from the original High School Musical movies like Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman.
Read on to find out everything else we know about the upcoming season and the long-awaited reunion movie.
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"HSMTMTS" Season 4 Plot
The fourth season of “HSMTMTS” will mainly focus on the making of “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” as the entire East High drama club learns that they will soon participate in the movie as extras. Within the realm of the show, many cast members from the original High School Musical cast are returning in order to make the final film. The show will also “feature songs from the ‘High School Musical’ franchise as well as original music,” per Disney+.
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"HSMTMTS" Season 4 Cast
Wylie, Julia Lester, and Frankie Rodriguez are coming back for the fourth season of “HSMTMTS,” as well as Bassett (although Olivia Rodrigo will not be returning for her role as Nini). Additionally, new cast members include Kylie Cantrall as a social media influencer named Dani, Matthew Sato as an actor named Mack, Caitlin Reilly as an indie film director named Quinn, and Vasthy Mompoint as Krystal, a choreographer.
There’s good news for fans of the original “High School Musical” movie franchise, too. Original cast members Bleu, Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, and Kaycee Stroh will all return, Disney+ has confirmed, playing themselves and revisiting their beloved characters in the remake within the TV show.
Given that both Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron posted pictures of East High over the summer, fans are holding out hope to see the stars reprise their iconic roles as Gabriella and Troy, but as of now, it doesn’t look like there will be a reunion for them anytime soon.
Will Vanessa Hudgens Be in “HSMTMTS” Season 4?
According to Hudgens, her nostalgic video in front of East High only happened because she was in town at the time. “My boyfriend was playing in Salt Lake – he’s a baseball player. So he was at the field and I had rented a car and I was like, ‘I want to go check it out and take some pictures for old time’s sake,'” she told Entertainment Weekly.
So, unfortunately, the actor’s Instagram video wasn’t teasing a return to “HSM,” but she isn’t ruling out the chance to star in “HSMTMTS” in the future. “We leave it up to fate. Leave it up to the gods,” she added. So a cameo from Hudgens could still happen!
Will Zac Efron Be in “HSMTMTS” Season 4?
Though Efron previously told Variety he’d be down to reprise his role as Troy in a fourth “HSM” movie, his participation in “HSMTMTS” season four has not been confirmed (yet). In a September interview with TVLine, “HSMTMTS” showrunner Tim Federle cleared up false rumors of Hudgens and Efron joining his series after they both shared their East High posts on Instagram. “I’m going to chalk that up to being a remarkable coincidence,” Federle said, “but we’d love to get Zac and Vanessa and all of them back, so we’re actively working on that right now.”
