You’ve Got Mail fans, you’ve got a remake on the way from Warner Bros. Pictures.
According to Deadline, Jason Orley is on board to direct the new take on the classic romantic comedy. He is also writing the current draft based on a screenplay by Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait, Josie and the Pussycats).
You’ve Got Mail will be Orley’s fourth feature, after his 2019 directorial debut Big Time Adolescence, 2022’s I Want You Back, and his upcoming Close Personal Friends. The latter will be released by Amazon and stars Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Lilly Collins, and Henry Golding. Orley also directed the stand-up specials Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli and Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends, as well as most episodes of Davidson’s comedy drama series Bupkis.
Directed by Nora Ephron, You’ve Got Mail stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as an independent children’s bookshop owner and the corporate bookselling magnate threatening her livelihood, respectively, who become pen pals online, falling for each other without realizing they’re rivals. Released in December 1998, the rom-com grossed over $250M worldwide.
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