Reese Witherspoon is popping Legally Blonde right into a TV present? What, prefer it’s laborious?
The actress and her Hiya Sunshine manufacturing firm are in growth on a TV spin-off sequence of her well-liked authorized rom-coms, ET can affirm. Deadline was first to report on Thursday that Witherspoon, together with Gossip Woman government producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, is trying to maintain the franchise happening TV and/or streaming, although particulars of the venture are being saved below wraps for now.
The unique movie, which grew to become an everlasting hit when it was launched in 2001, has already spawned two follow-up films — 2003’s Legally Blonde 2: Crimson, White & Blonde, during which Witherspoon reprised her titular function as Elle Woods, and 2009’s direct-to-DVD Legally Blondes — in addition to a well-liked Broadway present, during which Laura Bell Bundy originated the function of Elle.
A 3rd movie starring Witherspoon has lengthy been within the works as effectively, with the newest iteration being developed by Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor — nevertheless, Kaling mentioned final fall that the venture, like many others, had been delayed by the Writers Guild strike.
She additionally instructed ET in April 2022 that she and the Legally Blonde 3 artistic workforce have been taking their time writing, adamant about doing justice to the legacy of the beloved franchise.
“I like this venture. I’m so enthusiastic about it. We’re engaged on it,” Kaling mentioned on the time. “It’s going, you recognize, a bit of extra slowly than we like however [it’s] simply because we actually need it to be good. I consider it as like, Reese’s Avengers. Elle Woods is like her Captain America, so you do not need to be the individual that messes up that story. So for me, we’re simply taking our time as a result of we would like it to be actually good.”
Witherspoon has beforehand teased that her subsequent model of Legally Blonde will likely be closely targeted on Elle’s relationship with Jennifer Coolidge‘s iconic manicurist, Paulette Bonafonté.
“I am past myself about Jennifer Coolidge,” Witherspoon gushed. “She deserves each a type of flowers she is receiving proper now. And she or he’s simply a type of individuals who is so naturally gifted and humorous and that you could simply inform folks love her, ‘trigger she will get up there and all people’s like, ‘I like her,’ however she’s simply achieved a number of good work in our enterprise for thus lengthy, that it is very nice to see her getting this unbelievable second.”
“There isn’t a Legally Blonde 3 with out Jennifer Coolidge,” Witherspoon maintained.
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