
Lafferty took the Ravens jersey he wore in the pilot and the NS23 shoes from the set.ġ6. But instead of throwing it out, Bush took the prop home.ġ5. The check Millicent writes out to Brooke for the first dress sold in the Tree Hill Clothes Over Bros store was never cashed because Brooke knew Millicent couldn't afford it. Millicent's (Lisa Goldstein Kirsch) glasses are actually Kirsch's.ġ4. To separate her from co-star Hilarie Burton (Peyton), Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley) was told she had to dye her blonde curls before starting to shoot One Tree Hill.ġ3. Tanner read his lines only in the pilot, so after it aired, he called Schwahn up and said, "I didn't know were brothers!"ġ2. Then, he'd want to play with Antwon Tanner, who played Antwon "Skills" Taylor, so Schwahn wrote storylines for them.ġ1. He would tell Schwahn he wanted to eat ice cream, and in nearly every scene, he'd be eating ice cream. When Jamie was first written into the show, a lot of his scenes were dictated by what Brundage wanted to do. Though Jackson Brundage was only 6 when he was cast as Jamie, he was really good at memorizing lines.ġ0. Moira Kelly (Karen) found out she was pregnant after the pilot was shot, but Schwahn didn't want to write the pregnancy into the show, so they used an array of props to hide her belly.ĩ.

The first time she was told she didn't look sexy enough, the second time she was told she looked too sexy, and the third time she was offered the part.Ĩ. Sophia Bush read for the role of Brooke three times. The actor was on his high school basketball team before being cast on One Tree Hill.ħ. James Lafferty didn't have to fake too much to play Nathan.

Schwahn wanted Chad Michael Murray to play Nathan, but Murray wanted to play Lucas, so the producers agreed to cast him in that role.Ħ. One Tree Hill was originally set in Illinois, but The WB asked Schwahn to set it in a warmer climate, which is how the show ended up taking place in North Carolina.ĥ. The show title comes from the U2 song "One Tree Hill" from the Joshua Tree album.Ĥ.
#One tree hill movie#
Executive producers Brian Robbins, Mike Tollin, and Joe Davola spent four years convincing Schwahn to turn the movie into a TV series.ģ. Creator Mark Schwahn originally wrote One Tree Hill as a feature-length project called Ravens.Ģ. Read on to see what the show's alumni have been up to since that final season.1. One Tree Hill concluded its ninth and final season on April 4, 2012.
#One tree hill series#
The series made headlines again in November 2017 when a number of cast and crew members came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against creator Mark Schwahn. The ensemble cast also included Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz, Paul Johansson, Sophia Bush, Barry Corbin, Craig Sheffer, Moira Kelly, Barbara Alyn Woods, Lee Norris, Antwon Tanner, Danneel Harris Ackles, Jackson Brundage, Lisa Goldstein Kirsch, Austin Nichols, Robert Buckley, Shantel VanSanten, Jana Kramer, Stephen Colletti and Tyler Hilton. The series was set in the fictional town of Tree Hill, North Carolina and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. While the first four seasons took place at Tree Hill High School, the final five followed the characters as they navigated adulthood. The show, which aired on The CW starting with its fourth season, followed estranged half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) as they are forced to work together when Lucas joins the Tree Hill Ravens basketball team.

It's been 15 years since One Tree Hill premiered on The WB on Sept.
