‘Tis the season to be jolly, especially because Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis is set to write yet another Christmas movie which will star Melissa McCarthy.
According to Deadline, the film will be a Christmas comedy set in New York City and will be directed by Sam Boyd.
The film is a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who befriends a magical genie to help win his family back for the holidays.
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The as-yet-untitled project is being made for Peacock and will be produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Riva Marker.
Meanwhile, Richard Curtis recently admitted that the lack of diversity in the film makes him uncomfortable now.
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The rom-com is considered a holiday staple across the world but, according to Curtis, some aspects of it did not age well, including the lack of diversity.
Speaking with US TV channel ABC for a one-hour special, The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later, Curtis said: “There are things that you would change, but thank God society is changing. My film is bound in some moments to feel out of date. The lack of diversity makes me feel uncomfortable and a bit stupid.”
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“There is such extraordinary love that goes on every minute in so many ways all around the world,” he added. “[It] makes me wish my film was better; it makes me wish [that] I'd made a documentary just to kind of observe it.”
Curtis also recently cleared the confusion about Juliet’s job in the film. When his daughter Scarlett conducted a poll online, asking people if they knew what Juliet’s (Kiera Knightley) job in the film was, an overwhelming majority said they had no clue. But now we finally know.
"I think it’s very clear from the set design, while he’s [Chiwetel Ejiofor's Peter] making the phone call to Andrew Lincoln [Mark], that she has worked for quite a long time as an interior decorator,” he said.
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