Warner Bros. is remaking You’ve Got Mail, the 1998 Nora Ephron romantic comedy, with Jason Orley attached to direct. The project is in early development. No cast, no production start, and no release date have been announced.
Orley is working from a screenplay by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing under the Original Film banner. According to Deadline, which broke the story, plot details are being kept under wraps.
The original starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as anonymous online correspondents who fall in love while unknowingly locked in a business rivalry over a small bookshop. Directed by Ephron, it grossed over $250 million worldwide on a $65 million budget. The story derives from Miklós László’s 1937 play Parfumerie, itself previously filmed by Ernst Lubitsch as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940.
Orley’s feature credits include Big Time Adolescence (2019) and the romantic comedy I Want You Back (2022). He has also completed Close Personal Friends, an Amazon comedy starring Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Henry Golding, and Lily Collins; it has no release date yet.
How the remake will update the story’s email-era premise for the present remains uncertain. No stars are attached, and Warner Bros. has not commented further.
