Netflix have acquired He’s All That, a gender-swapped remake of 1999 movie She’s All That.
Released 22 years in the past, She’s All That was a contemporary tackle the traditional Pygmalion/My Fair Lady story starring Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook and the late Paul Walker. Prinze, Jr. performed a highschool jock who bets his finest buddy (Walker) that he can flip Cooke’s socially awkward artwork pupil into an unlikely promenade queen.
Last yr, it was introduced remake of the movie was within the works, which might see Cook returning alongside TikTok star Addison Rae and Tanner Buchanan.
Now, Netflix have confirmed that they’ve acquired worldwide rights for the brand new movie, which is ready to land later this yr.
A synopsis for the movie reads: “The contemporary story will follow an influencer (Rae) who accepts a challenge to turn the school’s biggest loser (Buchanan) into prom king.”
She’s All That (1999).
“I’m thrilled to be reunited with so many familiar faces,” Cook added in an announcement in regards to the new movie. “This version has a great new spin that I think people will really enjoy.”
In a earlier interview with HollywoodLife final yr, Cook shared her preliminary curiosity in a second movie, saying: “I would be fascinated to know how they would consider doing that, but I could never answer that blindly. I think that She’s All That is an inherently high school story, but I think that there’s definitely room for revamping that idea again to bring it to a new audience.”
Back in 2013, acclaimed filmmaker M Night Shyamalan revealed he ghost-wrote She’s All That.
When requested in an interview if audiences come to anticipate a trademark twist on the finish of each film he’s concerned in, Shyamalan stated: “You’re saying the viewers’s relationship began with me with The Sixth Sense. That identical yr I wrote Stuart Little.
“I ghost-wrote a movie that same year that would even add to the breadth of it all. I ghost-wrote the movie She’s All That.”
