One other ’80s basic is about to bear the reboot therapy: Ilana Peña is connected to adapt a script of “Working Lady” for twentieth Century, with Selena Gomez in last talks to star. Deadline broke the information.
Because the supply notes, studios are persevering with to reassess the IP collected of their respective libraries, notably because the latest success of “Prime Gun: Maverick” — “twentieth Century sees this as a well timed property and views Gomez as the proper accomplice on the venture.” The 1988 movie, which starred Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, and Harrison Ford, tells the story of an formidable secretary (Griffith) who assumes her boss, Katharine’s (Sigourney Weaver) identification when Katherine is recovering from a damaged leg. A field workplace success, the pic earned six Oscar nominations together with Greatest Image and Greatest Actress for Griffith.
It’s presently unknown how the reboot’s plot might deviate from the unique.
A workers author on “Loopy Ex-Girlfriend,” Peña went on to create the hit Disney+ sequence “Diary of a Future President,” on which she additionally served as showrunner and exec producer, and for which she directed the penultimate episode. She has since additionally directed on “Gordita Chronicles.”
Gomez’s most up-to-date credit embrace a starring function in “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” on which she additionally serves as an exec producer. She is connected to guide “Within the Shadow of the Mountain,” a biopic of trailblazing Peruvian mountaineer Silvia Vásquez-Lavado primarily based on Vásquez-Lavado’s memoir of the identical title.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
