Warner Bros. prepara un remake de la rom-com ‘You’ve Got Mail’

The classic 90's rom-com, You have an emailof Warner Bros.will be subjected to a remake.

The new version will be directed by Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence). In addition, Orley is writing the most recent draft of the script, based on the earlier draft by Deborah Kaplany and Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait), according to reports from Deadline.

At the moment there are no details about the plot, nor the changes it could have in relation to the 1998 version.

Neal Moritz and Tania Landau will produce the feature film under the Original Film banner.

In the original version of You’ve Got MailTom Hanks plays Joe Fox, a magnate of large bookstore chains who, with the opening of a new establishment on the Upper West Side of New York, threatens to ruin the business of Kathleen Kelly, a character played by Meg Ryan, owner of an independent children's bookstore. Although their in-person relationship is inherently conflictive, the two begin an anonymous romance through AOL Messenger (a now defunct platform). The cast also included Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton and Steve Zahn.

The rom-com, released by Warner Bros. during the holiday season in 1998, was a huge box office success, grossing $250 million against a budget of approximately $65 million. It was the third film co-starring Hanks and Ryan, after making together Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) y Sleepless in Seattle (1993), the latter also written and directed by Ephron.

You’ve Got Mail was inspired by the 1937 play, Perfumeryby Miklós László, which had previously been adapted into the 1940 comedy classic, The Shop Around the Cornerstarring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.

Could it be that now it will be the turn to adapt it for the online world of TikTok, Instagram and influencers?

The casting process for the remake of You have an emailwhich makes it clear once again that Warner Bros., under the direction of David Ellison, will bet heavily on its intellectual properties (IP); this translates into a large number of remakes, reboots, sequels and derivatives.

Why do we say the above? Just look at everything that has built up since David Ellison took over Paramount Skydance in August 2025; projects like Top Gun 3a film based on Call of Duty, Rush Hour 4in addition to the reboots of A Nightmare on Elm Street y G.I. Joe. Added to this are new deliveries of Star Trek y Transformersa sequel to World War Z, A Quiet Place 3and more deliveries of Paranormal Activity and Longlegs. And that's without counting Warner Bros.'s immense catalog of intellectual properties that is about to be exploited to the fullest.

Orley joins You’ve Got Mail having recently completed post-production on Close Personal Friendsan Amazon comedy starring Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Lily Collins and Henry Golding. He debuted as a feature film director in 2019 with Big Time Adolescencewhich he followed with I Want You Back in 2022.

On television, Orley directed six episodes of Bupkithe Pete Davidson series released in 2023 on the Peacock platform. Likewise, he collaborated with Davidson on three of his comedy specials.