Jennifer Aniston’s manufacturing firm, Echo Movies, are to reimagine basic comedy 9 to five for a modern-day viewers, in response to reviews. The script is being written by Juno and Younger Grownup author Diablo Cody.
No plot particulars have but been revealed, however the 1980 authentic centred on three feminine colleagues in an workplace who workforce as much as take revenge on their “sexist, egotistical, mendacity, hypocritical bigot” boss. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman starred within the movie, which was scripted by Patricia Resnick with Colin Higgins, who additionally directed. It was based mostly on an thought by Fonda, who commissioned the movie as a car for herself and Tomlin earlier than bringing Parton on board.
The movie remodeled $100m and helped launch the appearing profession of Parton – whose theme tune of the identical identify went to No 1 within the US for a fortnight and have become one of many largest tracks of the last decade. The movie spawned a five-series spinoff TV present, and a stage musical, that includes new songs by Parton, which opened on Broadway in 2009.
It additionally loosely impressed the 2011 movie Horrible Bosses, which featured Aniston because the abusive boss of Charlie Day’s dental nurse, whom he makes an attempt to have murdered. Aniston additionally collaborated with Parton on 2018’s Dumplin, for which they co-sang the tune Push and Pull.
Since then, Aniston has starred in solely two motion pictures, 2019’s Homicide Thriller and its 2023 sequel, each reverse Adam Sandler and for Netflix. She has additionally been seen in Apple TV’s The Morning Present.
A potential sequel to 9 to five that includes the three authentic leads had been mooted for the reason that early Nineteen Eighties, however was lastly dropped in 2019. Three years later they appeared collectively within the last episode of Grace and Frankie.
