We’re reasonably sure that the number of people who have forgotten 2009 “best friends try to destroy each other over a wedding venue” comedy Bride Wars includes at least a few members of its actual cast. (Quick, somebody ambush Chris Pratt with a “Who plays Anne Hathaway’s unlikable fiancé in Bride Wars?” and let us know how it goes.) But that number does not include either Peacock or Emma Roberts, turns out, with the two teaming up to make a new TV adaptation of the film a scant 17 years after the fact.
Or, possibly, an “adaptation,” because the premise here (per Deadline) actually sounds pretty different from the Hathaway/Kate Hudson vehicle—to the point that we suspect that someone came up with a wholly original idea about dueling wedding planners in North Carolina, only for someone at studio New Regency Productions to pipe up to say “Hey, we’ve got a name that would go great with that.” (Or possibly not: The original Bride Wars was supposedly originally pitched as a teen comedy for a then-18 Roberts, before being reconfigured for an older audience; it’s possible this is just the story of Roberts giving her all for The One That Got Away.)
Our baseless speculations aside, though, the new show will star Roberts—whose recent credits include direct-to-Prime-Video comedy Space Cadet and direct-to-Razzies candidate Madame Web—as a “big-city wedding planner” who comes to a small North Carolina town, only to get into a feud with “a beloved local planner” who wants to plan the same wedding as her. (In this sense, Bride Wars has transformed from a war being waged between brides into one being waged over one; who knew how much subtlety could be found in the semantics of the brides of war?) No word yet on who’ll be playing the local planner serving as the Nelson to Roberts’ matrimonial Napoleon.
The new Bride Wars is being written and led by Sascha Rothchild, who recently served as showrunner on Netflix’s XO, Kitty. Roberts will both star in and serve as an executive producer for the series.
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