We have a third Bridget Jones movie on the way this year, but did you think Anne Hathaway was going to let Renée Zellweger have all the fun? According to People Magazine, Academy Award-winner Hathaway may be reuniting with director Gary Marshall for The Princess Diaries 3, which looks like it would be set primarily in the Big Apple.
“I was with Anne Hathaway a couple weeks ago, it looks like we want to do ‘Princess Diaries 3’ in Manhattan,” Marshall said. “Anne Hathaway is very pregnant, so we have to wait until she has the baby and then I think we’re going to do it.”
This would be Hathaway and Marshall’s first pairing since 2010’s star-studded Valentine’s Day, and may also potentially feature the return of Lord Nicholas Devereaux, as played in the second film by Chris Pine.
“Maybe,” Marshall says of Pine possibly coming back. “He’s quite big now, you know. Chris Pine likes me, you know why? Because his father is in ‘Mother’s Day’!”
Marshall’s Mother’s Day, featuring Robert Pine, will open on April 29. Meanwhile, Hathaway will next be seen in another sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, reprising her role as the White Queen in the May 27 release.
The original The Princess Diaries opened in 2001 and grossed over $165 million worldwide, focusing on an awkward, unpopular high school girl named Mia Thermopolis who discovers she’s heir to a small European kingdom called Genovia. Julie Andrews co-starred in the film as well as its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, which made over $134 million worldwide in 2004. Both movies were released by Walt Disney Pictures.
