It looks like we’ll be waiting a little bit longer for a new Nancy Meyers flick, as Netflix has reportedly shelved the $130 million rom-com that was set to bring the famed director out of retirement.
Sources told Variety that the movie — which was reportedly going to star Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Owen Wilson and Michael Fassbender — may not make it onto Netflix, it’s still being shopped around to other potential buyers, pending talent availability. So there’s still a chance we may see it come to fruition!
Paris Paramount — the name the pending film became known as, though it’s unclear if it was the final title — was previously greenlit by Netflix almost one year ago in April 2022. The movie was described as a “semi-autobiographical story about Hollywood exes who end up working together,” per the logline.
Meyers — who was married to director Charles Shyer for nearly 20 years — worked alongside her husband on a variety of award-winning films from The Parent Trap and Private Benjamin to Father of the Bride and Baby Boom.
However, things with Paris Paramount seemed to get a bit murky earlier this month when Puck reported that Netflix had declined Meyers’ request for a $150 million budget — instead, they only allotted $130 million for the film, with Meyers’ team claiming that “it would be hard to make the movie” without the extra $20 million.
Decider has reached out to Netflix for a comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.
Meyers made her directorial debut in 1998 with The Parent Trap — which stars a young Lindsay Lohan in both lead roles — before going on to make other iconic rom-coms such as What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday. It’s been nearly a decade since her most recent film — The Intern, starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro — was released in 2015.
With any luck, we will hopefully get to see Meyers bring her coastal grandmother aesthetic back to the big screen sooner rather than later.