NEW DIRECTION

Netflix Driving One Direction Comeback With Road-Trip Series

Reports suggest former bandmates are teaming up for the production, with Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson already confirmed.

Netflix is reportedly bankrolling a new reunion series featuring former One Direction band members as they embark on a U.S. road trip. Zayn Malik, 32, and Louis Tomlinson, 33, are the only confirmed participants in the as-yet-unnamed production, The Sun reports. The project is pitched as a road-trip documentary, following Malik and Tomlinson traveling across the U.S., reflecting on their time in One Direction, and discussing their lives and grief over the late bandmate Liam Payne. Payne died in 2024 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. The Sun report suggests that filming is already underway. The show marks the first public offering of a 1D reunion since they appeared together at Payne’s funeral in November. Before that, they had not appeared as a unit since splitting up in 2016. “This will be an absolutely huge show for Netflix and is guaranteed to whip 1D’s global army of fans into a frenzy,” a source told the British tabloid.