{"id":302394,"date":"2026-02-26T02:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:34:06","slug":"heartless-tyrant-emma-roberts-to-reignite-the-bride-wars-on-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/302394\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartless tyrant Emma Roberts to reignite the Bride Wars on Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re reasonably sure that the number of people who have forgotten 2009 \u201cbest friends try to destroy each other over a wedding venue\u201d comedy Bride Wars<\/a>\u00a0includes at least a few members of its actual cast. (Quick, somebody ambush Chris Pratt with a \u201cWho plays Anne Hathaway\u2019s unlikable fianc\u00e9 in\u00a0Bride Wars?\u201d and let us know how it goes.) But that number does not\u00a0include either Peacock or Emma Roberts, turns out, with the two teaming up to make a new TV adaptation of the film a scant 17 years after the fact.<\/p>\n

Or, possibly, an \u201cadaptation,\u201d because the premise here (per Deadline<\/a>) actually sounds pretty different from the Hathaway\/Kate Hudson vehicle\u2014to the point that we suspect that someone came up with a wholly original idea about dueling wedding planners in North Carolina, only for someone at studio New Regency Productions to pipe up to say \u201cHey, we\u2019ve got a name that would go great with that.\u201d (Or possibly not: The original\u00a0Bride Wars\u00a0was supposedly originally pitched as a teen comedy for a then-18 Roberts, before being reconfigured for an older audience; it\u2019s possible this is just the story of Roberts giving her all for The One That Got Away.)<\/p>\n

Our baseless speculations aside, though, the new show will star Roberts\u2014whose recent credits include direct-to-Prime-Video comedy Space Cadet<\/a>\u00a0and direct-to-Razzies candidate Madame Web<\/a>\u2014as a \u201cbig-city wedding planner\u201d who comes to a small North Carolina town, only to get into a feud with \u201ca beloved local planner\u201d who wants to plan the same wedding as her. (In this sense,\u00a0Bride Wars\u00a0has transformed from a war being waged between brides into one being waged\u00a0over\u00a0one; who knew how much subtlety could be found in the semantics of the brides of war?) No word yet on who\u2019ll be playing the local planner serving as the Nelson to Roberts\u2019 matrimonial Napoleon.<\/p>\n

The new\u00a0Bride Wars\u00a0is being written and led by Sascha Rothchild, who recently served as showrunner on Netflix\u2019s\u00a0XO, Kitty<\/a>. Roberts will both star in and serve as an executive producer for the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re reasonably sure that the number of people who have forgotten 2009 \u201cbest friends try to destroy each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-302394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}