Adele Lim caught a falling star and put it in her pocket, and now she’s going to be the director of Princess Diaries 3, in accordance with Deadline. It’s an enormous step ahead for the franchise, which had its final installment, Royal Engagement, 20 years in the past. Legendary Garry Marshall directed the primary two movies, which starred Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. “As a diehard fan of the unique Princess Diaries, I’m past excited to be part of bringing the third iteration of this beloved franchise to life,” Lim mentioned in a press release. “We sit up for celebrating its core tenants of feminine energy, pleasure and mentorship with audiences worldwide.”

A smart lady as soon as sang that miracles occur if you imagine, so we’ll put it on the market now: if Princess Diaries 3 has a scene as raunchy as Stephanie Hsu’s tattoo reveal in Pleasure Journey, that alone would justify its existence. After all, Lim additionally has family-friendly Disney bonafides because the screenwriter behind Raya And The Final Dragon in addition to the blockbuster rom-com Loopy Wealthy Asians. Princess Diaries 3 is being written by Flora Gleeson, who penned The Excessive Observe. (When the undertaking was introduced in growth in 2022, Supergirl‘s Aadrita Mukerji was connected as screenwriter.)

Anne Hathaway, a.ok.a. the titular princess Mia Thermopolis, nonetheless isn’t formally connected, however she has signaled she’s in. Talking with V Journal earlier this yr, she mentioned the threequel was “in place”: “That’s all I can say. There’s nothing to announce but. However we’re in place.” Chris Pine, who grew to become Mia’s King Consort on the finish of the second movie, proposed a model directed by Luca Guadagnino again in Could. Julie Andrews solid some doubt that she’d return when discussing the likelihood again in 2022, though her doubts gave the impression to be about whether or not the film would get made in any respect, so maybe now that it’s transferring ahead they’d have the ability to persuade her. That being mentioned, the film is named The Princess Diaries, and Mia grew to become Queen (following her grandmother’s abdication) on the finish of the final film… appears extremely probably we’ll see a real legacyquel and meet Mia’s daughter within the third movie.