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Writer Reveals Plot Details Of Canceled Rom-Com 'The Wedding Planner' Sequel

The screenwriter of 'The Wedding Planner Michael Ellis was intending on making a trilogy and a TV series that continues the story of the couple.

'The Wedding Planner' is one of the classic and quintessential rom-com that makes us believe in love at first sight and that it conquers all. Be it Jennifer nailing her part as the wedding planner whose middle name was perfection and the cute meets hot looking doctor Mathew McConaughey playing her love interest. And trust me anytime there were slightest hints roaming around about the movie's sequel I would literally jump.

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According to Entertainment Weekly, the screenwriter of the film Michael Ellis was intending on making a trilogy and a TV series that continues the story of the couple which got nixed. However, he has spilled the beans on how the couple's journey would have looked like. The screenwriter reveals the story with Mary and her best friend Penny planning the couple's wedding in the sequel of the film. This is something exciting for the people who have been waiting for a good rom-com ever since the popularity of the genre dipped in the last few years.



 

 

This may be another chance for the genre to rise in popularity again. Talking about the details of the upcoming sequel, Ellis tells EW, “She’d become a bridezilla. There’d be some grit to it…. they realize that in the first movie maybe they weren’t looking at each other realistically. There were some interesting romantic questions there,” this situation would ruin the friendship between Mary and her best friend. 



 

 

The screenwriter also revealed how Mary has everything planned in her head and she wants it to be perfect. She also spoke about how during the research for the film, the wedding planners they had interviewed were cynical about the brides they had worked with.

"When it came to her own wedding she’d be like, I want my big day,” Ellis explains. “When we were doing the research for the movie, all the wedding planners we interviewed were pretty cynical about the brides they were working for."



 

 

"When it comes to this is going to be my wedding, they just went crazy…. when Mary gets to have her own big day, [she doesn’t] want it to just be on a beach, she wants her day in the spotlight. The drama of it is she’s become exactly the kind of thing she hated, and she takes a step back and figures out what’s important to her,” he added. Ellis also revealed the lead ideas the film making team for planning for the third movie. 

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“We’d also batted around the idea that, during the planning of the wedding, Mary found out she’s pregnant…. which would lead to the third movie: Mary planning her daughter’s wedding!” he continues. He also said that the main couple would split before the third film's timeline but since their daughter is getting married, the couple will have to reunite to plan the wedding of their child. 

 


 
 
 
 
 
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"The idea of what she’d want for her daughter and what her daughter wants would come into play, and whatever her journey was in the second movie, in the third movie she’d learn a lesson and try to teach her daughter what she’s learned and probably try to talk her out of the grand spectacle of it all because it doesn’t mean anything. What’s important is the person you’re going to be with, and she’d try to teach her daughter that lesson,” he adds further. My, my it would have surely made for an amazing trilogy.

 

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Even after Elis had discussed his ideas with the director-producer-choreographer Adam Shankman, the films still failed to get launched. ABC had bought a single camera pilot based on the film in 2006 but that too failed to launch the concept. “It was like a new incarnation of 'The Love Boat', where Mary facilitated a new [wedding] every episode,” Ellis adds.

He wanted the series to be a similar structure as 'Ugly Betty'. ABC still dropped the project but that doesn't stop Ellis from thinking about what could've been done. 



 

“In that version, Mary and Steve didn’t make it, so she was on the market again,” he finishes. “[But] Steve came back at the end of season 1, like her version of [Sex and the City’s] Mr. Big. The film 'Wedding Planner' first released on January 26, 2001. It quickly became popular among the rom-com genre and the audience loved it. The film grossed around $95 million at the international box office. 

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The film tells the story of Mary, played by Jennifer Lopez who is rescued from a deadly collision with a runaway dumpster by a charming pediatrician Steve Edison played by Matthew McConaughey. After the two spend a lot of time together, she thinks that she has finally found the love of her life but little does she know about how her love life and her career are about to have a major clash and she would have to sacrifice one of them.



 

 

Apart from Jennifer and Mathew the film also stars, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras as Fran Donolly, Justin Chambers as Massimo Bulut Lenzetti, Judy Greer as Penny Nicholson, Alex Rocco as Salvatore Fiore, Joanna Gleason as Mrs. John Robert Donolly, Charles Kimbrough as, Mr. John Robert Donolly, Kevin Pollak as Dr. John Dojny., Fred Willard as Basil St. Mosely and many others.