It’s been over a year since it was announced that Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway would be returning to her breakout role as Mia Thermopolis in the sequel, The Princess Diaries 3. There hasn’t been any news on the script or production on the film since then, and fans have wondered if the whole project ended up on the cutting room floor.
Luckily, that’s not the case, and Hathaway has confirmed that the movie is indeed still in the works. In a recent V magazine interview, the actress stated that development continues on the long-anticipated sequel, and the intention remains to get it off the ground.
“We’re in a good place,” Hathaway said. “That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce yet. But we’re in a good place.”
When asked if she thought another of her hit films, The Devil Wears Prada, could ever be turned into a sequel, Hathaway replied:
“Probably not. We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to. But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different. Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Dave Frankel, Patricia Field… we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”
Directed by the late Garry Marshall and based Meg Cabot’s novel, the original 2001 The Princess Diaries film followed an awkward American teenager who learns she’s the heir to the throne of the European kingdom of Genovia. Julia Andrews played the fictional nation’s queen. The family film became a box office hit with $165 million in global ticket sales. The follow-up film, which was also directed by Marshall and introduced the world to Chris Pine, was equally successful in theaters with $134 million worldwide.
The Princess Diaries franchise screenwriter Aadrita Mukerji (Reacher, Supergirl) is set to return for the third film. Though Julie Andrews has not committed to returning, Hathaway said she hopes her grandmother from the franchise will be able to come back to reprise her role.
