It should 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 venture, and cited that “The Vacation” author/director/producer Meyers “has no involvement” within the revival restricted sequence. The present will even heart 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 houses with Iris (Kate Winslet), a London newspaper columnist. Each ladies ease their heartbreak with new males on reverse sides of the world: Amanda finds love with Iris’ brother (Jude Legislation) 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 can 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 but it surely’s not true.”
Actress Winslet’s consultant additional confirmed to IndieWire that no plans for a “The Vacation” sequel have been within the works on the time. Winslet instructed Folks journal of the rumored movie, “I learn one thing about that, but it surely’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 Legislation later shared how “The Vacation” is one in all his most enduring movies. “They requested the viewers who has seen ‘The Vacation’ or who watches it yearly,” Legislation mentioned throughout a profession tribute on the 2024 Mill Valley Movie Pageant. “Ninety % of the viewers put their hand up. It’s a pleasant factor what this film has change into.”
