As Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) as soon as stated, “It’s not applicable for royalty to jingle.” However followers of The Princess Diaries movies are absolutely making a ton of noise as information of a 3rd installment hit the web.
That’s proper: Princess Diaries 3 is reportedly within the works at Disney practically 20 years after The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement was launched, in response to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s set to be a continuation of the Anne Hathaway-led franchise relatively than a reboot, however Hathaway herself shouldn’t be but confirmed to be becoming a member of the threequel. She has, nonetheless, publicly supported the thought of one other Mia Thermopolis story for years.
The excellent news: Reacher and Quantum Leap scribe Aadrita Mukerji is penning the script with franchise veteran Debra Martin Chase returning to provide. They are going to hopefully proceed the story of the goofy and lovable Mia Thermopolis, who learns she is inheritor to the throne of the European kingdom of Genovia. Primarily based on the Meg Cabot novel, the unique movie was a field workplace hit and popular culture sensation, incomes $165.3 million globally. Its 2004 sequel introduced in $134.7 million globally.
Mia Thermopolis is again?!
As not too long ago as 2019, Hathaway, 40, confirmed {that a} script for a third movie existed.
“There’s a script for the third film,” she stated on an episode of Watch What Happens Live. “There’s a script. I need to do it, Julie [Andrews] needs to do it, Debra Martin Chase, our producer, needs to do it. All of us actually need it to occur.”
Hathaway stated that the forged would solely cement their look within the film if the story was completely good. “…As a result of we adore it simply as a lot as you guys adore it,” Hathaway defined. “It is as necessary to us as it’s to you, and we do not need to ship something till it is prepared. However we’re engaged on it.”
Mandy Moore, 38, who performed rival Lana within the first film, said she would return as did Chris Pine, 42, who performed love curiosity Nicholas within the sequel. (His one caveat is it has to movie in his hometown of Los Angeles.)
The one main holdout seems to be Andrews, 87, who feels the time to make one other movie has handed after director Garry Marshall died in 2016.
“I believe it could be too late to do it now,” she instructed THR in June. “There was speak of a sequel many, a few years in the past. However I do not assume it ever got here to move. And Garry then did depart us. [For] particularly me, it is too far down the road now to return to it. It is a pretty thought, however I do not assume it could in all probability be attainable.”
Please Dame Julie Andrews, that is “greater than orthodontia.”
