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20 years aft the past installment successful the Princess Diaries series, E! News has learned a 3rd movie is moving guardant astatine Disney with manager Adele Lim.
By Will Reid Oct 04, 2024 8:30 PMTags
Mandy Moore Drops Hint That She Will Return for Princess Diaries 3
A queen is ne'er late, but this quality can’t travel soon enough.
The Princess Diaries 3 is officially successful the works with Crazy Rich Asians screenwriter Adele Lim acceptable to nonstop the sequel, E! News tin confirm.
“As a diehard instrumentality of the archetypal Princess Diaries, I’m beyond excited to beryllium a portion of bringing the 3rd iteration of this beloved franchise to life,” Lim—who made her directorial debut with 2023’s Joy Ride—said successful a connection Oct. 4. “We look guardant to celebrating its halfway tenants of pistillate power, joyousness and mentorship with audiences worldwide.”
The archetypal Princess Diaries hit theatres successful 2001, marking Anne Hathaway’s movie debut arsenic awkward-teen-turned-princess Mia Thermopolis. The Disney comedy, co-starring Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi, became a smash hit, starring to the sequel Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, with Chris Pine joining the formed in his first onscreen role.
While casting for the 3rd installment—which was confirmed to beryllium successful aboriginal development successful 2022—has not been announced, Variety reports the movie volition beryllium a continuation of the bid alternatively than a reboot. In fact, Hathaway has antecedently hinted astatine her engagement successful the project.
“We’re successful a bully place,” she told V Magazine successful April erstwhile asked astir the film’s progress. “That’s each I tin say. There’s thing to denote yet. But we’re successful a bully place.”
The Oscar victor besides addressed the subject successful 2019, justifying the lengthy hold for a follow-up.
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“We don't privation to bash it unless it's perfect, due to the fact that we emotion it conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic you guys emotion it,” she told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. “It's arsenic important to america arsenic it is to you and we don't privation to present thing until it's ready. But we're moving connected it."
Mandy Moore, who played mean miss Lana Thomas successful the archetypal movie, besides seemed to subtly bespeak her interest successful reprising the relation portion commemorating the film’s 23rd day connected societal media.
“And conscionable similar that, #ThePrincessDiaries turns a twelvemonth older and a twelvemonth sweeter! What a gift,” she wrote connected Instagram successful July, portion pregnant with her 3rd child. “And arsenic I look done aged photos, which brings backmost aged memories, I recognize however overmuch I similar the fig 3.”
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