'You've Got Mail' reboot is in the works
A new version of the beloved romantic comedy "You've Got Mail" is in the works at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Director Jason Orley is set to write and direct the reboot of the 1998 film, which starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, ABC News has learned.
Orley will write the screenplay based on an earlier draft by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Plot details are being kept under wraps for the time being.
The original "You've Got Mail" followed Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan), two business rivals who unknowingly fall in love through anonymous online messages.
Their budding romance is complicated by Joe's plans to open a large bookstore that threatens Kathleen's independent bookshop.
Directed by Nora Ephron, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia Ephron, the 1998 film was based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie" by Miklós László.
The play also inspired the 1940 film "The Shop Around the Corner," starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, and the 1949 musical "In the Good Old Summertime," starring Judy Garland.
The story was later adapted into the 1963 Broadway musical "She Loves Me."
Orley previously directed "Big Time Adolescence" and "I Want You Back."
He also recently completed post-production on the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios comedy "Close Personal Friends," starring Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Lily Collins and Henry Golding.
