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Is Warner Bros. finally going to make the wishes of scads of rabid Nancy Meyers fans come true? And just in time for the 2027 holiday season? (Was 2026 too soon?!) The studio announced today that it has officially dated Meyers’ seventh directorial offering, intriguingly only known as “An Untitled Nancy Meyers Film.” Tell us more!
Well, it seems like Warners can’t quite do that just yet. As for the film’s logline? Official word: it’s “under wraps.” And while there has been some chatter on the internet about what it might be about, we’re also hearing that anything previously reported about its plot is not true.
One thing we do know for sure: it will arrive on December 25, 2027. Is it too much to hope that this release date is thematic, and Meyers’ latest will return her to the holiday-friendly arena of, ahem, “The Holiday”? No joke, we’d love that. Put a bow on it!
The studio also announced that it is in final negotiations with the film’s, cast currently set to include Penélope Cruz, Kieran Culkin, Jude Law, Emma Mackey, and Owen Wilson. Meyers also wrote the film, which she will produce alongside Ilona Herzberg and executive producer Diana Pokorny.
As Deadline reports, Meyers has been trying to get this movie going for quite awhile. In 2023, it was set up at Netflix (consider this a good lesson in what a Netflix movie is versus a Warner Bros.) with a cast that included the still-attached Wilson and Cruz, plus Scarlett Johansson and Michael Fassbender. Per the trade, “The pricetag was between $130M-$150M with $80M for above-the-line costs. Netflix couldn’t do it. Two days after Netflix pulled the plug in mid-March 2023, the project moved over to Warners where they’ve been passionate about mounting the project.”
The film will return Meyers to the warm embrace of Warners, who previously made her last film, 2015’s Anne Hathaway-starring “The Intern.” On the occasion of that film’s release, Meyers told this writer it’s always hard for her to make films. Eleven years later, that seems more true than ever.
Getting “The Intern” up and running took awhile, per Meyers, “Because I did not set it up at a studio. I feel that was probably not the best thing for this project, because when you’re writing and they’re calling you saying, “Hey, where is it?” I didn’t have that for this one, it was a choice to not have it. Another reason I didn’t set it up was that it was very clear that the landscape had changed in movies, and budgets of any size weren’t really given to movies I make anymore. … I kind of got down the pipeline at a lot of places but I didn’t get anyone to pull the trigger because, honestly, when was the last time you saw a movie like this from a studio? Because they’re not making it, they didn’t make it.”
She added, “I sort of didn’t see what was happening as clearly as I thought, but I understood in a way that they have an agenda, they need to make these tentpole movies, they want to be in the franchise business and I come along with a story about a 70-year-old man and a woman running a startup. These are not things they’re making movies about, so it was a hard decision, but I kept trying.”
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