A sequel to 1997 comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is in the works with Celine Song tapped to write the screenplay.
According to Collider, the playwright turned writer-director, who broke out with Oscar-nominated drama Past Lives, has reportedly been hired by Sony as the film enters early development.
News of the film recently circulated when one of its stars Dermot Mulroney teased that there is “talk of a sequel” and that “lawyers were talking” while promoting Netflix drama series The Hunting Wives.
The original film starred Julia Roberts as a meddling food critic who decides to break up her best friend’s wedding because of her feelings for him. It also starred Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett and made just under $300m at the global box office.
Roberts has previously expressed interest in reprising the role. The actor was last seen on the big screen in romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise and this year will lead Luca Guadagnino’s provocative thriller After the Hunt. She will then be seen in paranoid thriller Panic Carefully with Elizabeth Olsen.
Song scored a best original screenplay Oscar nomination for Past Lives and recently followed it up with Materialists, a romantic comedy drama starring Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans. The Guardian’s Adrian Horton called it “as beguiling as it is frustrating” in a three-star review.
She has also been attached to a HBO series about the world of e-sports.
The sequel joins a number of other follow-ups to films from the 1990s. This month saw both the release of underperforming slasher reboot I Know What You Did Last Summer in cinemas and Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2 on Netflix, next month sees the launch of comedy sequel Freakier Friday, a TV series extension of Clueless is currently in development at Peacock and a seventh Scream film hits the big screen next year.
