'You've Got Mail' Reboot Set at Warner Bros.
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Warner Bros. is rebooting the 1998 romantic comedy "You’ve Got Mail," with Jason Orley set to direct and currently working on the script based on an earlier draft by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont.
- The original film starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, focusing on a rivalry-turned-romance between competing bookstore owners, and was a major box office success, earning $250 million on a $65 million budget.
- Neal Moritz and Tania Landau will produce the reboot under the Original Film banner, while plot details for the new version remain undisclosed.
- Jason Orley, known for directing "Big Time Adolescence," "I Want You Back," and episodes of the Peacock series "Bupkis," recently completed post-production on the Amazon comedy "Close Personal Friends."
- The 1998 film was inspired by the 1937 play "Parfumerie" by Miklós László, which also inspired the 1940 classic "The Shop Around the Corner."
