There’s a motion dubbed the romcomaissance – or the romcom renaissance for individuals who don’t love a portmanteau – which first began to realize momentum final yr.
From Julia Roberts ending her years-long break (and reunion with George Clooney) in Ticket to Paradise to Jennifer Lopez’s box-office topping Marry Me, the romcom drought was over.
Then it was revealed there a sequel to the very best grossing romcom of all time on the best way, and Reese Witherspoon promised to by no means stop making them.
All nice information, but it surely will get even higher as one of many early queens of the style is lastly reclaiming her crown.
That’s proper… Meg Ryan is again.
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The enchanting main girl of a few of the finest romcoms of all time, together with You’ve Bought Mail, Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally has largely been out of the highlight for the previous few years.
Her final was the drama Ithaca launched in 2015 and earlier than that, she hadn’t made a film since 2009.
However now, not solely is she making her triumphant return to the style she helped form, she’s doing so sporting many various hats.
The French Kiss actress not solely stars within the upcoming romcom, What Occurs Later, she really directed and co-wrote the screenplay.
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What’s Meg Ryan’s new movie about?
The film, What Occurs Later, feels like basic romantic comedy gold.
The official synopsis reads, “Two ex lovers, Invoice (The X Recordsdata star David Duchovny) and Willa (Meg Ryan) get snowed in at a regional airport in a single day.”
“Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Invoice, a catastrophic one, discover themselves simply as interested in and irritated by each other as they did a long time earlier. However as they unpack the riddle of their mutual previous and evaluate their lives to the desires they as soon as shared, they start to marvel if their reunion is mere coincidence, or one thing extra enchanted.”
Talking in regards to the film, Meg teased that it has parts of all the basic romantic comedies she’s starred in earlier than – and those that got here earlier than them.
“It has a relationship to films from the ’40s, like ‘Bringing Up Child,’ when it comes to the banter and the rhythm of issues and a variety of that period of filmmaking,” she mentioned in an interview with Leisure Weekly. “Nora Ephron [writer of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle] used to say about romcoms that they have been actually a secretly unimaginable supply system to touch upon the occasions, and we try this on this film.”
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Is there a trailer for the brand new Meg Ryan film?
After all.
When the trailer was shared on X (previously Twitter), followers wasted no time expressing their delight on the return of Meg Ryan.
One wrote, “I am in for ALL of this! Particularly, Meg Ryan being Meg Ryan!” whereas one other humorous publish learn, “A Meg Ryan romcom? Launched to precise film theaters? CINEMA IS BACK.”
When is What Occurs Later out?
The excellent news is {that a} launch date for the US shouldn’t be too distant. The film comes out in cinemas on November 3,
The unhealthy information is there’s presently no confirmed UK launch date.
