What looked to be a rumour is now coming to life and in time for the holiday season!

One Tree Hill alums will have a mini reunion for a new movie on the Lifetime Network called The Christmas Contract.  Entertainment Tonight sat down with Hilarie Burton, Danneel Ackles, Antwon Tanner and Robert Buckley and they dished on their reunion and how it all went down.

 

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Hilarie explains that she and Rob wanted to do a Christmas movie for some time however, after the birth of her second daughter, things began to fall into place, “Rob Buckley and I had been trying to do a Christmas movie together for five years and there was so many many people that were like, ‘Oh, the reunion? I don’t know!”   Danneel says, “This one was like a good opportunity to come back. Antwon and I interacted a bit on One Tree Hill, but not a lot and we’re married in this Christmas movie.  It was a chance to get to work with people we hadn’t worked with in different ways.”

 

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According to ET,  “In Christmas Contract, Burton plays Jolie, a successful web designer, who returns to her Louisiana hometown for the holidays following a devastating breakup with her ex. To help make the holidays less stressful, Jolie’s best friend, Naomi (Ackles), proposes she sign a Christmas contract with her flaky brother, novelist Jack (Buckley), acting as her “boyfriend.” Of course, you know how these movies go — a fake relationship suddenly becomes very, very real.”

 

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The best part – OTH star Tyler Hilton performs an original Christmas record called ‘Don’t Feel Like Christmas,’ “They asked me if I wanted to write a song for it and I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’d love to!’ They ended up loving it and asked if I’d come into the movie and perform it. It was cool because all of the One Tree Hill kids are in it, so we all got to be on set together again. I was on stage performing this song, watching them all out in the audience and it was like a flashback. I was thinking, ‘How many times did we do this on One Tree Hill?’ It was a lot of fun.”

 

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Following the The Christmas Contract, there’s also going to be a One Tree Hill special called ‘This the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion.  And what can we expect from The Christmas Contract?  Hilarie dishes, “We’ve got a couple of surprise guests that show up, but a number of our cast mates also have Christmas movies on Lifetime. Stephen Colletti and Joy Lenz also have Christmas movies, so it was kind of celebrating our movie as the kickoff to the holiday season and their movies and One Tree Hill taking over your holiday.”

 

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When asked if there will be a OTH reunion every year at Christmas? “Absolutely. We were just plotting 20 minutes ago, ‘All right, who are we going to recruit for next year?’ As long as the network is into it and as long as the fanbase is into it… We love each other and we love our other cast mates and that’s why we do all the conventions that we do. We work well together and we grew up together, so yeah. You’re stuck with us for life,” explains Hilarie.

 

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Awww … look how grown they are!!!

 

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