Big Legally Blonde moves tonight: As reported by Deadline, Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor (who previously sold a buzzy wedding comedy starring Kaling and Priyanka Chopra last year) are going to write the third Legally Blonde movie. This is the first new Legally Blonde 3 development since 2018 when Reese Witherspoon confirmed that the movie was in the works and that she would be returning to star, but original writers Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah were still attached at that point. Supposedly, the plan was to do a soft reboot on the series with a third movie that would be less political and more family-oriented, the idea being that kids who discovered the movie on DVD or streaming in more recent years would be the target audience rather than people who were old enough to see movies way back in the early 2000s.
The Kaling/Goor version, though, will be an “entirely new fresh spin” that jettisons everything Smith and McCullah had originally planned, suggesting that this will be a complete reversal of that old plan. We don’t know any specifics, but Witherspoon is still on board and that’s as encouraging a sign as any. As for Kaling and Goor, she should be a household name (she had a show with her name in the title, for one thing), while he’s the co-creator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and was a writer on Parks And Recreation. They’re a pair of heavy-hitters, in other words, and it suggests that MGM (the studio behind the series) is aiming for something a little better than nostalgia bait.
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Could Elle Woods team up with an equally blonde, chirpy forensic expert? It could be called ‘Legally Blonde 3: She Blonded Me With Science’.
In these trying times, the world needs Luke Wilson more than ever.
Is he running for president, because that seems like something that could happen right about now.
What the fuck happened to this bitch’s face?
Isn’t Mindy Kaling the brown version of Amy Schumer? I just don’t get her appeal.
I don’t know your taste, but The Office is very good and I loved Never I Ever. If you like romcoms then The Mindy Project is solid, but like Parks & Rec, it takes awhile before it gets good. She does solid voice work in Inside Out and Wreck-It Ralph. Late Night and A Wrinkle In Time are both bad. Avoid them.
Yeah. I saw Late Night, Bleccch. I watched the first season of TMKP and chugged thru it cuz everybody told me she was funny, but I hated it.Haven’t seen one episode of the Office. Either Office. Tried random samplings of Parks & Rec S1. 1 in 4 I thought were ok.
Pretty much. Also a bit racist too, so thats fun. Jez is all up in her vag though so she gets the praise.
“Ms. Woods, my first question is why you felt it was appropriate to bring a chihuahua to a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.”
There’s a webnovel that says it’s the scifi version of Legally Blonde. https://www.wattpad.com/story/171361792
LO fucking L at the idea of making it non-political. let’s remake legal eagles but they just work at a coffee shop.
wasn’t there already a made for tv legally blonde 3?…okay, checking IMDB, it was called Legally Blondes, and apparently starred Elle Woods twin cousins.