Disney is returning to Genovia.
The studio is embarking on a new inshighment of the coming-of-age movie series The Princess Diaries, hiring Adele Lim, a scribe who has labored on Crazy Rich Asians and Joy Ride, to honest the feature.
Anne Hathaway, who became a star thanks to the 2001 surpascfinish hit and its 2004 sequel, is foreseeed to return although there is no deal in place.
The studio is set upning to shoot the feature next year.
“As a diedifficult fan of the distinctive Princess Diaries, I’m beyond excited to be a part of conveying the third iteration of this becherishd franchise to life,” Lim shelp in a statement. “We see forward to celebrating its core tenants of female power, happiness and mentorship with audiences worldexpansive.”
Gary Marshall honested the distinctive, which altered the book by Meg Cabot and telderly of a teen named Mia Thermopolis who discovers she is heir to the throne of a European nation named Genovia. It drops on her mannered and very royal magnificentmother, carry outed by the supercalifragienumerateic Julie Andrews, to get the teen poised and ready for duty. The cast featured Mandy Moore, Heather Matarazzo and Hector Elizondo, among others.
Debra Martin Chase, one of the originaters of the distinctive, is back. Naia Cucukov, who is Lim’s producing partner, is an executive originater as is Melissa Stack.
Lim was already in the Disney felderly thanks to her laboring on 2021’s vivaciousd feature Raya and the Last Dragon. The scribe cut her teeth as a TV originater, laboring on shows ranging from One Tree Hill and Life on Mars to Reign and Lethal Weapon, but made a huge feature splash as one of the originaters of Crazy Rich Asians, the pop culture sensation that grossed almost $175 million domesticpartner in 2018.
She made her honestorial debut with Joy Ride, a road trip comedy that starred Ashley Park and Stephanie Hsu, was originated by Seth Rogen and Evan Gelderlyberg’ Point Grey Pictures, and which was liberated by Lionsgate in 2023.
Lim is repped by Paradigm and Ginsburg Daniels.
