The newly merged Paramount-Warner Bros. has made a commitment to releasing 30 movies a year, and remakes definitely count towards that tally. Hence the announcement that a new take on Nora Ephron’s 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail is in the works, to be directed by Jason Orley (I Want You Back, Big Time Adolescence).
According to Deadline, details are being kept under wraps about this new take on lovers who meet online. But it does feel likely that the story will be updated to fit with today’s social media climate. (Consequence‘s own Wren Graves’s pitch for a new title: CHECK UR DMS, with Alex Young immediately suggesting Sydney Sweeney to star.)
You’ve Got Mail, despite its very of-the-’90s title, is a more timeless tale than you might think. It was actually a remake of the Ernest Lubitsch 1940 classic The Shop Around the Corner, in which its central pairing fell in love via letters, and The Shop Around the Corner was itself based on the play Parfumerie by Miklós László.
