It’s been a long time coming – since the mid ‘90s at least – but TV director Diane English’s plan to remake George Cukor’s 1939 comedy The Women looks like it might finally be going into production.
Meg Ryan (who has been attached to the project since the start), Candice Bergen, Anne Hathaway and Lisa Kudrow are all committed to star in the film, which follows a group of gossip-loving high-society types who love nothing more than spending their days at the beauty salon and bitching about each other. The original Sex & The City (though it was 1939, so not so much with the on-screen nookie), Cukor’s comedy found blissfully married Mary Haines’ perfect life threatened by a scheming woman lures her husband away. Her friends react in typical fashion - trading the latest news about the affair, while Mary does her best to get her man back.
English plans to start shooting next March in New York.