{"id":32649,"date":"2025-07-30T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:45:08","slug":"sequel-to-julia-roberts-and-cameron-diazs-beloved-90s-rom-com-my-best-friends-wedding-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32649\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequel to Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz\u2019s beloved ’90s rom-com ‘My Best Friend\u2019s Wedding’ announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Oscar-nominated director has been hired to pen a sequel to classic \u201990s rom-com \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original film, starring Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts, became a box office success upon its release in 1997.<\/p>\n

The movie has since gone on to be considered one of the most iconic films within its genre.<\/p>\n

It featured Roberts and Dermot Mulroney as Julianne and Michael, a pair of best friends who made a pact that if they were still single at age 28, they would get married.<\/p>\n

When Mulroney\u2019s character gets engaged to another women, played by Diaz, Roberts had just four days to stop the wedding.<\/p>\n

Director Celine Song, best known for her Oscar nominated romantic drama Past Lives, has been hired by Sony to write the script for the sequel.<\/p>\n

Song had another hit this year with follow-up The Materialists starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n

\"Film\u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Wedding\u201d premiered in 1997.<\/p>\n

Official news of a sequel to \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Wedding\u201d comes shortly after Mulroney revealed that \u201cthere is talk of a sequel\u201d during an interview with the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

When asked about the potential for a follow-up, he said: \u201cI know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original was a big hit when it was released, earning $127 million in the US and three Golden Globe nominations in best musical and comedy, as well as acting nods for Roberts and Rupert Everett.<\/p>\n

\"JuliaCameron Diaz and Julia Roberts starred in the box office hit.<\/p>\n

It comes after it was announced that yet another classic movie is getting a sequel after more than two decades.<\/p>\n

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has confirmed she is working on a sequel to the hit 2002 film, which starred Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra.<\/p>\n

It will be released in 2027 in honour of Bend It Like Beckham\u2019s 25th anniversary and also to coincide with the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Chadha told the BBC she\u2019d received requests for a follow-up \u201calmost twice a week\u201d since the release of the original, which was made on a $7.2 million budget and became a box office hit, making around $120 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been part of changing the game for women, so it felt like this was a good time for me to go back and investigate the characters,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear whether the new instalment will be a film or TV series, but Chadha said she hoped to reunite some of the original cast members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oscar-nominated director has been hired to pen a sequel to classic \u201990s rom-com \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Wedding.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,30324,447,30325,30326,30327,134,1689,30328,372,30329],"class_list":["post-32649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cameron-diaz","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-evans","tag-dakota-johnson","tag-dermot-mulroney","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-julia-roberts","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}