‘Legally Blonde 3’ Taps Mindy Kaling, Dan Goor to Write

Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor will write MGM’s “Legally Blonde 3,” during which Reese Witherspoon is about to reprise her iconic position of Elle Woods, a person with information of the deal informed TheWrap.

Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is producing the movie, alongside Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, president of Platt Productions. Hello Sunshine’s head of movie and tv, Lauren Neustadter, can be producing.

This is the second time Kaling and Goor are partnering up on a movie. They collaborated on the Kaling/Priyanka Chopra marriage ceremony comedy that was picked up by Universal after a heated public sale in 2019.

Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah tailored the novel by Amanda Brown for the primary movie and had been beforehand in talks to jot down the script.

“Legally Blonde” grossed $141 million worldwide, whereas its followup secured $124 million on the world field workplace. The first movie adopted Elle Woods as she went to Harvard Law School after she was dumped by her boyfriend. In the sequel, Elle headed to Washington D.C. to affix the workers of a congresswoman in hopes of passing a invoice to ban animal testing.

In 2015, the actress stated the timing is true for a 3rd movie as a result of “we’re talking about women in politics and how important that is to get more women. And I think it’d be kind of a cool thing to have her be a Supreme Court justice or someone who runs for office.”

Kaling not too long ago co-created and govt produced the Netflix collection “Never Have I Ever.” She additionally most not too long ago starred in “Late Night,” which made its debut on the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Goor, two-time Emmy-winning author of “The Daily Show” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” created “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and was an EP and author on “Parks and Recreation.”

Kaling is represented by CAA, 3 Arts and Ziffren Brittenham, whereas Goor is represented by Ziffren Brittenham.

Deadline first reported the information.