My Best Friend's Wedding' Sequel in the Works With Celine Song Directing | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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Wedding bells are ringing! Following this summer's 'The Materialists,' Celine Song is attached to a buzzy new sequel! The filmmaker has been tapped to write a sequel to Sony's 'My Best Friend’s Wedding.' The film would follow the 1997 classic starring Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney as Julianne and Michael, a pair of best friends who made a pact that if they were still single at age 28, they would get married.

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00:00Wedding bells are ringing. Following this summer's The Materialist,

00:03Celine's song is attached to a buzzy new sequel.

00:07The filmmaker has been tapped to write a sequel to Sony's My Best Friend's Wedding.

00:12The film would follow the 1997 classic starring Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney

00:16as Julianne and Michael, a pair of best friends who made a pact that if they were still single

00:21at age 28, they would get married. When Mulroney's character becomes engaged to

00:25another woman, played by Cameron Diaz, Roberts has just four days to stop the wedding.

00:30The project is in early development, and at this stage, Song is attached to write but not direct,

00:35and would not necessarily be her next project. As a director and writer, Song helped elevate the

00:40romantic genre with Past Lives, which earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.

00:45The film followed two former childhood friends who reconnect decades later.

00:50Song's follow-up, The Materialist, has been a sleeper hit this year, earning $52.1 million

00:55globally, and starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal.

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