Last fall, MGM offered the highly anticipated legally blonde 3 a tentative release date of May 2022, but there has been little news on the project since then. This weekend, however, on the red carpet for Sing 2, Reese Witherspoon finally offered an update on the trio. According to Witherspoon, they are working on the script and once they have a script they can then make the movie.

“We’re just working on the script right now and when we have a script we can do a movie,” Witherspoon said. Variety. She also noted that she and Mindy Kaling talked about the project “all the time” and that they were “super excited” about it.

Office and The Mindy project star Kaling is about to write the movie starring Brooklyn nine-nine Producer Dan Goor and Kaling updated in January. At the time, she said the idea would be to shoot the film in 2021 with an eye on the 2022 release date, but as that doesn’t appear to have happened, it’s unclear when. the film’s actual release in May 2022. becomes increasingly unlikely.

Witherspoon first confirmed that legally blonde 3 was in development in 2018 with an Instagram post. Fans are hopeful that many of the original film’s stars will return for the trio, and Luke Wilson, who played Elle’s love interest in the franchise, previously told Entertainment Tonight that he’d like to make another film.

“I haven’t told Reese about it, but yeah, I still hear rumors here and there,” Wilson said. “Never anything official about them doing another The revenge of a blonde, but I would love to do another one. I mean, just this character played by Reese was so funny back then and it’s kind of become that iconic character now. “

“Someone just told me they were going to celebrate their 20th birthday, which I couldn’t believe,” Wilson continued. “I definitely meet women who were kids when it came out and they say to me, ‘Now I have presented the film to my daughter. “So it’s really cool, and I’ve never had this before, where a movie kind of got presented to another generation by the people who originally saw it.”

“I would say they definitely have a few kids and I just think it would be really funny if Reese had a little mini-me, a version of herself,” he said. “I would definitely think they would have a few kids.”

Based on the novel of the same name by Amanda Brown, The revenge of a blonde opened in theaters in 2001 and quickly became a hit, grossing $ 141 million at the global box office. The film spawned a sort of franchise with a sequel in 2003, Legally blonde 2: red, white and blonde, a direct DVD spin-off in 2009 Legally blond, a Broadway musical Legally Blonde: The Musical.