Warner Bros Developing Reboot of Classic Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan Rom-Com

A classic romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is in development at Warner Bros. That’s right… if you’ve ever wondered what a modern version of You’ve Got Mail would look like, then look no further.

I Want You Back and Big Time Adolescence filmmaker Jason Orley is on board to direct. He’s also writing the screenplay based on Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont‘s ___ screenplay.

Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing via Original Film.

The original 1998 film, directed by Nora Ephron, sees Ryan as an independent children’s bookshop owner and Hanks as a corporate bookselling magnate threatening her livelihood. The two become unexpected penpals online, falling for each other without realising who the other is.

At the time of its release, the rom-com captured the emergence of email as a way to stay connected and even be intimate with others. It also captured the trend of corporate bookstores __ independent shops. The film released in December 1998 via Warner Bros, grossing over $250M worldwide.

It was also the third collaboration between Hanks and Ryan, after Joe Versus the Volcano and Sleepless in Seattle, which was also directed by Ephron.

It’ll be interesting to see how an updated version of the film would look, with AOL now a thing of the past. But as far as that goes, details about the reboot are being kept under wraps.

Source: Deadline