It have to be these Santa Ana winds…
Simply as early 2000s movies “Freaky Friday,” “The Satan Wears Prada,” “Bend It Like Beckham,” and “The Princess Diaries” are receiving franchise sequels, Nancy Meyers’ beloved “The Vacation” is getting the TV therapy.
Sure, the 2006 movie “The Vacation” is being reimagined by “Disaster” co-creator Rob Delaney and “Sweetpea” author/co-executive producer Krissie Ducker for Apple TV+. The duo beforehand labored collectively on “Disaster,” as Ducker was a writers’ assistant on the sequence.
Deadline first reported the mission, and cited that “The Vacation” author/director/producer Meyers “has no involvement” within the revival restricted sequence. The present can even middle on completely different characters than the movie did, with a casting search underway.
“The Vacation” initially centered on Los Angeles-based film advertising and marketing govt Amanda (Cameron Diaz), who swaps properties with Iris (Kate Winslet), a London newspaper columnist. Each girls ease their heartbreak with new males on reverse sides of the world: Amanda finds love with Iris’ brother (Jude Regulation) whereas Iris connects with a movie composer (Jack Black). The movie takes place in December, making it a de facto Christmas film. As Deadline cited, the sequence will “reboot the premise of the movie with new characters.”
“The Vacation” was rumored for a sequel in 2022. The Solar falsely reported from an unnamed supply that manufacturing could be beginning in early 2023 with the unique forged. Nonetheless, Meyers shut down the declare on the time. “So many DM’s about this,” Meyers captioned on Instagram. “Sorry nevertheless it’s not true.”
Actress Winslet’s consultant additional confirmed to IndieWire that no plans for a “The Vacation” sequel had been within the works on the time. Winslet instructed Folks journal of the rumored movie, “I learn one thing about that, nevertheless it’s the primary I’ve heard of it. I promise you, not an agent or a consultant or anybody from the primary one round has had any dialog with me about that. Hand on coronary heart, that’s by no means come up.”
Her co-star Regulation later shared how “The Vacation” is one among his most enduring movies. “They requested the viewers who has seen ‘The Vacation’ or who watches it yearly,” Regulation mentioned throughout a profession tribute on the 2024 Mill Valley Movie Competition. “Ninety p.c of the viewers put their hand up. It’s a pleasant factor what this film has grow to be.”