"What would You've Got Mail look like decades on from the heyday of AOL?" Deadline asked in reporting that Warner Bros. is developing "a new take" on the classic bookstore rom-com movie, with Jason Orley (I Want You Back, Big Time Adolescence) directing.
Although details about the storyline are being kept under wraps, Orley is writing the current draft based on a screenplay by Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont (Can't Hardly Wait, Josie and the Pussycats). "Coming off the 20th rom-com Beach Read, based on Emily Henry's bestseller," Neal Moritz is producing alongside Tania Landau via Original Film, Deadline noted.
Directed by Nora Ephron, the 1998 hit movie You've Got Mail starred Meg Ryan as an independent children's bookshop owner and Tom Hanks as the corporate bookselling magnate threatening her livelihood. They become pen pals online, then fall in love without realizing they are rivals.