Jennifer Aniston is looking to produce a reimagining of the glass-breaking, female driven 1980 comedy 9 to 5. Juno Oscar winner Diablo Cody is writing and Aniston will produce under her Echo Films label with Kristin Hahn.
Directed by Colin Higgins and starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, the movie followed three female office employes who turn the tables on their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot boss played by Dabney Coleman. The pic was a huge blockbuster back in the day grossing over $103M.
The movie was nominated for an original song Oscar for Parton’s title theme song. The song went platinum and was also nominated for four Grammy Award nominations, winning Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance.
The movie was spun off into an ABC sitcom of the same name in 1982-1983, as well as a 2008 Broadway musical which earned four Tony nominations. Recently there was a 2022 documentary Still Working 9 to 5 which reflected on the pic’s impact 40 years later.
Cody recently wrote the Focus Features’ movie Lisa Frankenstein which grossed just under $10M stateside. Aniston’s producing credits include The Morning Show, the Murder Mystery Netflix feature franchise, Friends: The Reunion. She also starred in and EP’ed the Netflix movie Dumplin‘ which had a soundtrack by Parton. In that movie, Aniston and Danielle Macdonald perform the Parton-penned ditty “Push and Pull.”
Insneider had the news about Aniston and 9 to 5.
