After countless years of endless speculation and a delightful on-stage reunion at this year’s SAG Awards, those of us who still worship at the feet of the cult classic that is finally have the news we’ve been waiting for: at last, 18 years on, a is now in the works. If you’re getting whiplash, you’re not the only one. Back in October 2022, during a interview, Anne Hathaway told categorically that “there’s not going to be a sequel.
It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it.” Even more recently, in April 2024, when asked about the possibility of a sequel by , she reiterated that it was “probably not” going to happen, though she was notably less definitive in shutting down the rumours.
“We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she said. “But there’s a huge difference in the world now with and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different.
Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Dave Frankel, Patricia Field...
we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.” But now, it looks like that particular gang – or at least most of them – could be reuniting for a follow-up film after all.
Per , is in early development on a sequel, with the original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna in talks to pen the next chapter. The storyline will reportedly follow “Miranda Pr.
