Jennifer Aniston is bringing new life to 9 to 5.
The Morning Show star is set to produce a remaining of the iconic 1980 film starring Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Aniston will produce the project that is in development through her Echo Films banner, alongside her partner Kristin Hahn. Oscar-winning Juno writer Diablo Cody will pen the script. She’s also written movies like Jennifer’s Body and, most recently, Lisa Frankenstein, starring Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton.
The Friends star‘s production company has produced projects like Adam Sandler-starrer Murder Mystery 2, Dumplin‘, Cake and The Switch. The InSneider was the first to report the news that the women would be producing the remake.
Fonda confirmed a 9 to 5 sequel was in the works in 2018, with her, Tomlin and Parton set to reprise their original roles. News of the potential sequel broke when Rashida Jones and Pat Rosnick had boarded the project as writers. However, the following year, Parton told Entertainment Tonight that the women had “dropped that whole idea.”
“I don’t think we’re going to do the sequel,” she said at the time. “We never could get the script where it was enough different than the first one, and that one turned out so good.”
The popular film followed Parton, Fonda and Tomlin’s characters as they take revenge on their sexist boss, played by Dabney Coleman. To this day, 9 to 5 remains one of the highest-grossing box office comedies of all time. It even spawned a Rita Moreno-starring sitcom in the 1980s that ran for five seasons as well as a 2009 Broadway musical.
No further details have been shared about the Aniston-produced 9 to 5 remake yet.
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