Warner Bros. Pictures are reportedly developing a new take on famed Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan-led 1998 romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail”.
Jason Orley (“Big Time Adolescence”) is onboard to direct the film and is currently writing a draft based on the screenplay of the original film which was penned by “Can’t Hardly Wait” writers Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont.
Nora Ephron directed the original which was essentially a new take on the film “The Shop Around the Corner’. The premise followed an independent children’s bookshop owner and the corporate bookselling magnate threatening her livelihood become pen pals online, falling for each other without realizing they’re rivals.
A big part of the original was its time period of the late 1990s. At that time big bookstores were squeezing out indie book shops, and we were in the early days of consumer internet.
At that time AOL was a big thing and email was the predominante format for intimacy – well before the arrival of dating apps. The film ultimately grossed over $250M worldwide.
Details as to the new take are being kept under wraps. Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing.
Source: Deadline
