Sex And The City 2 Set For 2010
“Sex and the City 2” opening date is set with Warner Bros and New Line Cinema. The adaptation of the hit HBO series will debut on May 28, 2010, the same weekend that the original movie debuted in 2008.
All four main cast members – Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon – have signed new contracts, while Jennifer Hudson has admitted that she is hoping to reprise the role of Louise from St. Louis.
Chris Noth – who plays Carrie Bradshaw’s husband “‘Mr. Big” – has hinted producers are “probably thinking” about giving the couple children.
Cynthia Nixon – who plays lawyer Miranda Hobbes – has her owns dreams for the plot.
She said:
“I would love to see Miranda and Carrie and Charlotte and Samantha all go off on some wild madcap adventure somewhere.”
Aside from the fact that all four of the original actresses have agreed to reprise their roles in the sequel, “Sex and the City 2″ will have director/writer Michael Patrick King once again taking the responsibility behind the camera.
Sex and the City was a box office hit, opening to $57 million on its way to earning $152.6 million domestically and over $415 million worldwide.
Hudson, Latifah and Okonedo have a ‘Secret’ – ‘The Secret Life of Bees’
Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo are set to star in Fox Searchlight’s adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s best-selling novel ‘The Secret Life of Bees’.
Variety reports Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys are also in final negotiations to join the cast. Set in 1964, the story focuses on a 14-year-old girl (Fanning) who escapes her troubled life by fleeing her home with her nanny.
They both travel to a small South Carolina town where the child moves in with her caregiver’s eccentric sisters.
Okonedo, Latifah and Keys would take over the roles of the three sisters, with Hudson playing Fanning’s nanny.
‘Love & Basketball’ director Gina Prince-Bythewood is helming her own script.
Production is scheduled to lift off early next year, with the film being released in 2009.
Fanning was last seen in Gary Winick’s family film ‘Charlotte’s Web’. She is currently filming the Paul McGuigan-directed sci-fi thriller ‘Push’.
Hudson has just wrapped filming the big screen adaptation of “Sex in the City,” and Queen Latifah will next be seen in Callie Khouri’s crime comedy “Mad Money.”
