Topics: Legal Blonde 3, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling EW initially confirmed that the third movie in 2018 was a Valentine`s Day 2020 release date. The film was postponed to 2022 after the pandemic thwarted all plans. Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor were hired as writers in 2020, and in March of this year, Kaling told Time that the film had been postponed indefinitely while they worked on their script. Kaling added that they hope to avoid the path of the recent reboot of Sex and the City And Just Like That. After years of speculation and teasing, Deadline reported in May 2020 that Legally Blonde 3 had been given the green light. The outlet confirmed that Witherspoon will return as a blonde lawyer defending herself against Catcalls and won`t advocate for a sister sister to be wrongly accused of murdering her husband — after all: “Happy people don`t kill their husbands!” Kaling said watching the “Sex and the City” reboot “And Just Like That” made her even more aware of how difficult it is to update Elle for a modern era. “The hardest thing about this project is understanding that authentically,” she said. “Honestly, if you look at `And Just Like That` and how they took a character from 18 years ago and what the character looked like now, we want to make sure Elle Woods doesn`t pay a fine for her existence in 2022.” The Instagram post below shows how happy Reese is to have Mindy on board, the couple also worked together on the Apple TV series + The Morning Show and the 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time. It turns out that when it comes to making the new Legally Blonde movie well, Kaling admits it`s pretty difficult. The film, originally scheduled for spring 2022, has been postponed indefinitely while Kaling and his co-writer, Dan Goor of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, work on the script. Kaling says they want to make sure they do justice to the popular original film and its sequel. Scroll down to see what we know about Legally Blonde 3 so far: In an interview with Access Hollywood, Mindy said, “I can`t wait to see what people think about how we wrote Elle Woods at 40. How Elle Woods is at 40 compared to 21 was really fun to imagine. In the 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, the now qualified lawyer She moved to Washington DC to advocate for animal rights and fight for Bruiser`s Law (named after her popular Chihuahua) banning makeup testing on animals.
Speaking to USA Today in July 2022, Reese Witherspoon explained that she was inspired by Tom Cruise`s Top Gun: Maverick to combine an element of nostalgia with a whole new story. “I still hope Legally Blonde 3 comes together in the right way,” she said. Since then, more details and information about the sequel have slowly come out. She continued: “I feel like these characters are my friends, so I protect them. I would never do the mediocre and mediocre version of their story. Elle Woods is back! Legal Blonde 3 will be released in May 2022. We are terminating our case. #LegallyBlonde3 #ElleWoods @ReeseW pic.twitter.com/WnxI1YEfqD “We want to make sure Elle Woods doesn`t pay a fine for her existence in 2022,” Kaling told Time. “As a fan, I didn`t want to see her cancelled or become a Karen. So the character is just fun. That`s what was interesting and challenging – and why it takes us so long to write. “Elle Woods is so iconic and proves that you can be girly and smart at the same time,” she added.
Fold and take pictures! ». Coolidge, who reprises her role as Paulette in the third installment of the franchise, also said she was “very excited” about “Legally Blonde 3” during an Aug. 1 interview on SiriusXM and shared her ideas for the ongoing film — including a new vacation to follow her character`s famous “You look like the Fourth of July” line from her 2003 sequel. “Legal Blonde 3” is on its way, although it keeps being delayed. Reese Witherspoon, who will reprise her role as Elle Woods, first announced that the new film would be in development on June 7, 2018. Originally, MGM announced in a tweet that “Legally Blonde 3” would hit theaters on Valentine`s Day 2020. This date has been extended to May 2022. Now, there is no new release date, but the film is still ongoing. And when asked if the film would contain references to previous films, Kaling said: “Bend and Snap is eternal. We certainly have a lot of fan favorites from the original film. Updating an iconic character from the 2000s for the 2020s is no easy task. Recent attempts to revive old favorite franchises, such as the sequel to Sex and the City And Just Like That, have divided audiences and critics alike.
Kaling is a big fan of the first Sex and the City. “I always felt very protective of the show because the men I knew in comedy at the time had a dismissive feeling,” she says. “It was off-putting for a certain type of man that these women were in their thirties, single, in expensive and beautiful dresses that men didn`t have to buy for them. They had great jobs. And they were completely sexually autonomous. I loved it when I was a very oppressed child, sexually. This was followed by nearly 10 years at TV Times Magazine as a writer and then deputy editor. Here she spent many happy days, interviewing the biggest names in the entertainment industry and attending sets at some of our most popular shows such as Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing. The original 2001 film made Reese Witherspoon a household name when she accepted the role of Elle, every Gemini`s favorite vegetarian law student who didn`t let her ex-boyfriend Warner (Matthew Davis) — or unfair stereotypes — stop her from becoming a lawyer. “I don`t know when we`ll be able to make movies again, but that would be great, if Reese likes the script, it would be great to shoot it this year,” she said. The original Legally Blonde starred Witherspoon as a pink-loving Harvard law student and was a key moment in her rise to film stardom. It spawned a sequel and a Broadway musical, so rumors of a third film for years leaked.
At the same time, Witherspoon has become a major Hollywood producer, bringing women`s movies and TV shows like Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere and now Apple TV+Surface to the big screen. If Legally Blonde 3 happens, Witherspoon will produce and star in the game. Witherspoon replied, “Well, no, there`s a 2, but I think we could work on a 3.” The vague answer is not quite the news we were hoping for, but our eyes have been opened for new developments. Pretty in pink! Legal Blonde`s box office success, cult following, and fans` enduring love for Elle Woods led to a successful sequel — and now Legally Blonde 3 is in the works. The 2022 release date was announced by MGM Studio in October 2020. In March 2022, Kaling Time announced that the film had been postponed indefinitely while she and Goor worked on the script. “We don`t want to be responsible for the ruin of what is basically Reese`s Avengers franchise,” Kaling said, teasing that the film would explore questions like, “What`s Elle Woods like at 42? Will she end up doing everything she wanted? How does this personality manifest itself in an adult woman? Has he become more cynical? Her brightness and cheerfulness really worked when she was 22, but how did life change her perspective on things? Joanne Lowles has been writing about television since 2002.