Anne Hathaway gave a much-needed update on the status of Princess Diaries 3 during her appearance on Watch What Happens Live yesterday.
Up until this point, there hadn’t really been talk of the new addition to the 2001 and 2004 film series in the last year.
Hathaway and Andrews, 83, starred as Princess Mia Thermopolis and Queen Clarisse Renaldi, respectively, in the 2001 film and its 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The series is based on books by Meg Cabot.
In 2017, it was reported that there was a script, and that Mandy Moore (Lana Thomas), Heather Matarazzo (Lilly Moscovitz), Chris Pine (Nicholas Devereaux), Julie Andrews (Queen Clarisse Renaldi), and Hathaway (Mia Thermopolis) were all open to playing some part in it.
The Serenity star added on Thursday that the cast and crew are “working on” making a third move, but want it to be “perfect.”
In her appearance yesterday, Hathaway reiterated that this is still very much an active project with a lot of passion behind it.
“There is a script for the third movie. That is so cute [the audience’s reaction]. There is a script,” she said. “I want to do it. Julie [Andrews] wants to do it. Debra Martin Chase, our producer, wants to do it. We all really want it to happen. It’s just we don’t want to unless it’s perfect because we love it just as much as you guys love it. It’s as important to us as it is to you, and we don’t want to deliver anything until it’s ready, but we’re working on it so…”
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