Jennifer Aniston has her eyes set on 9 to 5 remake, bringing the 1980 comedy film to a new generation. Aniston’s Echo Films production company is partnering with 20th Century Studios to produce a fresh take on the movie that made the cut in the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Funniest Movies.
The original 9 to 5 stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin as three working women on a mission to get even with their boss, the tyrannical, “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Franklin Hart Jr., played by Dabney Coleman. The film is considered a cult classic. What should viewers expect from this upcoming remake?
Jennifer Aniston is working on a remake of the classic ‘9 to 5’
As first reported by The InSneider, Aniston and her company recruited Diablo Cody to write the draft script for the upcoming 9 to 5 remake. Cody gained critical acclaim in 2007 for her screenwriting film debut, Juno, netting both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Other credits include 2009’s Jennifer’s Body and 2018’s Tully.
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Aniston established Echo Films in 2008 in collaboration with her production partner Kristin Hahn, and the company has since established a production deal with Universal Pictures. Several of their projects feature Aniston in an acting role, so fans of the original 9 to 5 may anticipate her playing a role.
The film already went through big transformations
It’s not certain what approach Aniston and her team will take with this 9 to 5 remake, but dramatic transformations are not unfamiliar territory for the movie—literally. In fact, the original was supposed to be a drama, rather than a comedy. But, Fonda revealed, “any way we did it, it seemed too preachy, too much of a feminist line.”
She went on, “I’d wanted to work with Lily [Tomlin] for some time, and it suddenly occurred to [her producing partner] Bruce and me that we should make it a comedy.” At the same time, they were happy to let it stay a “labor film,” while letting it stay markedly “different from the Grapes of Wrath or Salt of the Earth,” explained Fonda.
What would you like to see from a 9 to 5 remake?
