Reunited once more: Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino to return for “Romy and Michele’s Excessive Faculty Reunion” sequel

Now that they're completed folding scarves, Romy and Michele are lastly getting ready for his or her subsequent reunion.

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are on the verge of treating followers to a different enterprise lady particular: the actresses are formally in talks to star in a Romy and Michele's High School Reunion sequel. The followup to the 1997 cult basic hails from twentieth Century Studios, with Sorvino and Kudrow to reprise their roles because the titular pair. This time, the celebrities may also function govt producers.

Robin Schiff, scribe of the unique movie and Emily in Paris showrunner, is again to pen the sequel. Tim Federle, creator of Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Sequence and writer-director of Better Nate Than Never, will direct with Laurence Mark (Jerry Maguire, The Biggest Showman) and Barry Kemp (Catch Me if You Can) additionally producing.

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The unique movie follows the misadventures of Romy and Michele, besties who haven't completed a lot since their highschool days. With their 10 12 months highschool reunion on the horizon, the quirky duo determine to invent faux careers to impress their former classmates. Naturally, hijinks ensue.

After receiving favorable critiques upon launch, and scoring a average field workplace, the movie continued to broaden its viewers through the years, attracting extra followers with its bonkers tone and off-kilter performances.

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"There's one thing about Romy and Michele that's very enduring," Sorvino beforehand advised EW of the movie's legacy. "I feel it's the nerd friendship, rising above and silliness of all of it as a result of we're actually silly. We expect we're good, however we're actually dumb and but we love one another."

Speak of a possible sequel has circulated for years, spiking after Kudrow and Sorvino appeared collectively on the 2022 Display Actors Guild Awards (post-it notes and all). Within the subsequent months, each stars advised numerous retailers that one thing was within the works with Schiff, however nothing was official.

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Simply final 12 months, fellow Romy and Michele star Alan Cumming confirmed his personal curiosity in returning for the sequel, telling EW, "I feel what's nice concerning the sequel to Romy and Michele is simply going again to one thing that’s so beloved and having a relationship with these characters."

He teased, "I truly know what the story is, and it's actually good. So I'm excited. I'm so excited to return to it."

There isn’t a phrase but on whether or not different authentic Romy and Michele stars — together with Janeane Garofalo, Julia Campbell, Camryn Manheim, Elaine Hendrix, and Justin Theroux — may also return.

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