'My Best Friend's Wedding 2' Is in the Works With a Script by Celine Song
Rom-com lovers, stand up. My Best Friend's Wedding—the 1997 classic starring Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, and Dermot Mulroney—is getting a sequel decades later. Collider reported that the project is in 'very early development' (emphasis theirs) at Sony with Celine Song writing the script. This is huge news for fans of romance, yearning, and love triangles.
The original film follows Julianne (Roberts) and her best friend, Michael (Mulroney), who promised each other they'd get married if they were still single by the time they turned 28. (This cutoff didn't age well, we know.) But when Michael finally gets engaged, Julianne realizes she's actually in love with him.
News of the sequel, which arrives 28 (!) years later, brings up some important questions like: What will be 2025's answer to 'Say a Little Prayer'? Can anyone remove a ring stuck on someone's finger as smoothly as Dermot Mulroney? As we wait to learn more, here's everything we know about My Best Friend's Wedding 2 so far.
It's too early to say, and it's still unclear whether the sequel will bring back the original characters or which stars are confirmed to return.
Celine Song, the acclaimed filmmaker and writer behind Materialists and Past Lives, is writing the screenplay, but she will not be directing, per Variety. Song has shown her expertise in romance (and love triangles) in her two films. She recently told ELLE, 'Love is meaningless unless it's unconditional. And that, to me, is non-negotiable.'
While they've yet to address the recent news, the stars have opened up about a potential follow-up film.
On July 25, Mulroney vaguely hinted at sequel plans. 'I know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote,' he told New York Post while promoting Netflix's The Hunting Wives.
Roberts even expressed interest back in 2023. When asked on Watch What Happens Live which of her films she'd like to see a sequel for, she replied, 'I think, maybe, My Best Friend's Wedding,' according to Deadline. 'Because there's so many people in it, and to see what they're doing and how Kimmy and Michael's marriage is going and…'
And when host Andy Cohen asked her who Michael should have married, she added, 'Well, I mean, of course, Jules, but he married Kimmy.' Could this be a seed for the sequel?
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