You’ve Got a Message is getting a remake
The cult film with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan will return in the form of a new romance in the digital age of 2026…
It was the beginnings of the Internet. Emails. These messages that we sent to each other via the web without really knowing where they were going…
In 1998, five years after bringing them together in Sleepless nights in SeattleAmerican romance specialist Nora Ephron put Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan behind the keyboard of a digital rom’com, with You have a message. A beautiful story of the digital age…
The era has evolved somewhat since the first emails… so Warner Bros. prepares a new version of You have a message.
According to information from Variety, Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence, I Want You Back) will direct this remake, for which he is currently writing the screenplay based on a first version by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Neal Moritz and Tania Landau will produce the film under the Original Film banner.
In the original feature film, Tom Hanks played Joe Fox, a powerful bookstore boss who threatens to bankrupt Kathleen Kelly’s (Meg Ryan) small independent children’s store. If their meetings in real life systematically turn into confrontation, the two enemies get closer anonymously on AOL Messenger, until they fall in love without knowing their true identities. Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton and Steve Zahn completed the cast.
What will be the theme of the sequel? Love thanks to AI? Via the apps of dating ? And above all: who will be the two Hollywood lovers who will succeed the iconic couple?
Released at Christmas 1998, You have a message had been a great success at the box office, collecting $250 million worldwide for an estimated budget of $65 million. Nora Ephron’s film was itself inspired by the play Perfumerywritten in 1937 by Miklós László, already adapted for the cinema in 1940 with Appointment (The Shop Around the Corner), the romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch with James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.
The remake does not yet have a date.
