Miracles occur! Princess Diaries 3 is one step nearer to a actuality now that director Adele Lim is hooked up to the undertaking. Deadline completely reported the event, sharing that this shall be Lim’s second undertaking with Disney after directing the animated 2021 film Raya and the Final Dragon. Lim additionally penned the script for the romantic comedy Loopy Wealthy Asians and made her directorial debut with 2023’s Pleasure Trip.
“As a diehard fan of the unique Princess Diaries, I’m past excited to be part of bringing the third iteration of this beloved franchise to life. We stay up for celebrating its core tenants of feminine energy, pleasure, and mentorship with audiences worldwide,” Lim advised Deadline. Naia Cucukov, Lim’s producing companion, and Melissa Stack will govt produce Princess Diaries 3. Debra Martin Chase is producing the undertaking.
Based mostly on Meg Cabot’s novel, 2001’s The Princess Diaries follows American teen Mia Thermopolis as she learns she is Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi, Princess of the European nation Genovia. Her paternal grandmother, Clarisse Renaldi, portrayed by the legendary Julie Andrews, is Genovia’s Queen. 2004’s sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, follows Mia when she discovers she should marry earlier than changing into the Queen of Genovia. The film ends with Mia’s coronation because the Queen of Genovia – and not using a man by her facet. The late director Garry Marshall directed each movies.
A 3rd movie within the franchise has been a risk for years. Anne Hathaway, who starred as Mia Thermopolis, expressed curiosity in reprising her function in an interview with ET in October 2022. “I might greater than entertain it, I’m pulling for it. If there’s any method to get Julie Andrews concerned, I feel we might make it work. We’d go to the place she was and put a inexperienced display behind her and simply make it occur,” Hathaway shared.
By November 2022, The Hollywood Reporter completely reported that Supergirl and Reacher author Aadrita Mukerji was set to pen the script for a 3rd film. Martin Chase and Stack have been additionally hooked up of their respective producing roles. Nevertheless, at the moment, Hathaway didn’t have a deal to return. Within the meantime, Julie Andrews shared her ideas on a possible Princess Diaries 3 with The Hollywood Reporter. Andrews mentioned:
“I feel we all know that it’s most likely not going to be doable. It was talked about very shortly after two got here out, nevertheless it’s now what number of years since then? And I’m that a lot older and Annie the princess, or queen, is a lot older. And I’m not positive the place it could float or run. By way of us doing it, I doubt that now. I feel it could be too late to do it now. There was speak of a sequel many, a few years in the past. However I don’t suppose it ever got here to move. And Garry then did depart us. [For] particularly me, it’s too far down the road now to return to it. It’s a stunning thought, however I don’t suppose it could most likely be doable.”
An replace got here from Hathaway in January 2023 on the Sundance Movie Competition. “[It’s] thrilling [to] see the extent of pleasure for it. We really feel the very same, and I do know it’s most likely very irritating [waiting],” Hathaway advised Individuals. “It’s a course of that requires endurance, and so everyone ought to take into account themselves part of the film enterprise now, as a result of that is how lengthy it really takes to make issues,” Hathaway added.
Lastly, Hathaway mentioned, “We’re in an excellent place,” when referring to the undertaking in an interview with V Journal in April 2024. “That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce but. However we’re in an excellent place,” Hathaway added.
Additionally, Chris Pine, who starred as Mia’s love curiosity, Nicholas Devereaux, in The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement, has spoken about one other addition to the Disney movie franchise. “Princess Diaries 3, the place is it?’ Have you ever been studying my diary? I don’t know. I haven’t heard something about it,” Pine advised Leisure Weekly in Could 2024.
Now, 20 years after The Princess Diaries: The Royal Engagement debuted in theaters, there are extra strong developments for Princess Diaries 3. Shortly after the information broke, Anne Hathaway confirmed her return within the new undertaking on Instagram. Writing, partially, “The fairy story continues.” So, a return to Genovia is inside attain – now greater than ever. If all the pieces works out, we might lastly see what Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi is like because the Queen of Genovia. It’s time to seize the pear-flavored popcorn!
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The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement are streaming on Disney+ now.