EXCLUSIVE: What would be You’ve got mail does it look like decades after AOL’s heyday? We’re about to find out, because Warner Bros. is developing a new version of the classic romantic comedy, with Jason Orley directing.
Details of the shot are being kept secret. Orley, the filmmaker behind I want you to come back And A great adolescencewrote the current version based on a screenplay by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (I can’t hardly wait, Josie and the Pussycats).
On the release of the 20th romantic comedy Beach Readbased on the best-selling book by Emily Henry, Neal Moritz produces alongside Tania Landau via Original Film.
Directed by Nora Ephron, You’ve got mail stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as an independent children’s bookstore owner and a bookstore mogul threatening her livelihood who become online pen pals, falling for each other without realizing they are rivals.
Based on the play by Miklós László Perfumery and its film adaptation The corner shopthe romantic comedy captured the emergence of email as a means of intimacy, long before dating apps existed, and spoke to the ’90s trend of big-box bookstores crowding out independent stores. It was released through Warner Bros. in December 1998 and grossed over $250 million worldwide.
The film marked the third duo for Hanks and Ryan, after Joe against the volcano And Insomnia in Seattleand the duo’s latest film with the beloved Ephron.
Orley arrives You’ve got mail after completing his third feature film, an Amazon comedy called Close personal friends which stars Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Lilly Collins and Henry Golding. Maximum Effort produced alongside Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, from a story conceived by Orley and Aptaker.
Previously, Orley collaborated with Aptaker and Berger on the romantic comedy I want you to come backwhich he also directed for Amazon and stars Charlie Day, Jenny Slate and Gina Rodriguez. His first feature film, the Pete Davidson comedy A great adolescencepremiered in drama competition at Sundance Film 2019, where it was acquired by Hulu. Also known for working alongside Davidson on his show Peacock Bupkis and an assortment of comedy specials, he is repped by UTA, Rise Management and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Romantic comedy regulars, Kaplan and Elfont are known for writing and directing I can’t hardly wait And Josie and the Pussycatsas well as writing films honor And Leap Year. Creative partners since meeting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, they produced two films at Paramount last year: the R-rated comedy. Guys without friendswhich was acquired in a bidding war, and the Dave Bautista romantic comedy The romantic.
Kaplan and Elfont are repped by Entertainment 360 and Verve. Kaplan is also repped by Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Elfont by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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