Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney's romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is getting its sequel, nearly 30 years after the original. A report in Collider states that the upcoming project is in early development at Sony Pictures. Academy Award-nominated writer-director Celine Song (Past Lives and Materialists) is on board to pen the screenplay of the sequel.
My Best Friend’s Wedding Sequel In The Works; Celine Song To Write Screenplay - Report
My Best Friend’s Wedding 2 is reportedly in early development at Sony Pictures. Writer-director Celine Song is hired to pen the screenplay of the sequel.
Recently, Mulroney confirmed that "there is talk of a sequel" to the New York Post, while promoting his new Netflix series The Hunting Wives. When the actor was asked about a sequel to My Best Friend’s Wedding, he said, "I know nothing about it. Last I heard, quote, lawyers were talking, unquote."
The director and cast of the sequel are not known yet.
About My Best Friend’s Wedding
Roberts plays a food critic name Julianne Potter in the 1997 film. She learns that her longtime friend Michael O'Neal (Mulroney), is getting married. They had made a deal that to marry each other if both remained unmarried by the age of 28. When Roberts’ character comes to know about Michael's wedding, she plans to sabotage it.
The film also starred Cameron Diaz who played Michael's fiancée Kimberly Wallace. Rupert Everett, Carrie Preston and Philip Bosco were also part of the cast.
In 2023, Roberts said she wanted MBFW sequel. "I think, maybe, My Best Friend’s Wedding," she said on Watch What Happens Live.
"Because there’s so many people in it, and to see what they’re doing and how Kimmy and Michael’s marriage is going," she added.
Directed by PJ Hogan, My Best Friend’s Wedding was a blockbuster, and reportedly earned $127 million in North America and was the the ninth-highest grossing domestic release of that year. The film bagged three Golden Globe nominations including acting nods for Roberts and Everett.
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