Diablo Cody Drops Hints About Jennifer Aniston’s ‘9 To 5’ Reboot

The unique movie follows three girls who work in a company workplace and determine to take issues into their very own palms to get again at their sexist, egotistical, mendacity, hypocritical boss, performed by Dabney Coleman.

Diablo Cody hinted that the upcoming reboot will preserve the spirit of the unique whereas switching issues as much as resonate with immediately’s crowd.

Jennifer Aniston is about to provide a recent tackle the 1980 comedy basic by her manufacturing firm, Echo Movies, which she co-runs with Kristin Hahn.

“Jennifer Aniston is simply the good lady on this planet, proper?” Diablo Cody instructed People Magazine of the “Mates” star. “She will be able to make something occur. She’s extremely highly effective. And she or he’s beautiful and he or she’s cool.”

It’s “undoubtedly a pinch-me second to be collaborating with” Jennifer Aniston, Cody added.

Cody, who’s behind the script of the brand new film, recalled how she grew to become hooked up to the venture.

“They have been searching for a author, and I heard about it, and I actually transfer on issues,” Cody instructed Individuals. “I assumed, ‘If I do not do that, I will remorse it.’ And that is all the time the signal. I feel to myself, ‘Would I be viciously jealous of the one who took this job if I did not take it?’ If the reply is sure, I’ve to do it.”

Aniston and Hahn determined to achieve out to Cody since she has a “love” for the unique. “It helps when individuals know that you simply’re keen about it and that you simply’re not only a employed gun,” Cody instructed the journal, including that “a few years in the past [she] was a company 9 to five girly.”

“So I have been in that world. I labored in an advert company,” Cody added. “So I needed to name upon that period in my life to write down.”

Many individuals are skeptical of reboots of beloved classics, however Cody reassures “9 to five” followers that any good reboot ought to break new floor as a lot because it should “pay homage to the fabric.”

“I am probably not supposed to speak about this that a lot,” she teased when chatting with Individuals. “However the authentic film was sort of a battle-of-the-sexes sort situation. Whereas now I really feel like a lot of the battle within the office is generational: how Gen Z works versus people who have possibly been within the workplace for many years.”

Final month, Diablo Cody revealed that the venture continues to be within the very early levels as they don’t actually have a solid but, “however I really feel like we’re transferring ahead with it. It was actually an thrilling factor to work on.”

The “9 to five” authentic actress and nation music singer broke her silence on the reboot on the 2024 CMA Fest, admitting that she has identified about Aniston’s concept for a few years.

“She did speak about wanting to do this then with youthful newer individuals,” Parton recalled. “And that probably Jane [Fonda], Lily [Tomlin] and I — they could look us up and now that we’re older and no matter positions we’re holding, the characters that we performed — and that we’d get to be in it there.”

Lily Tomlin additionally broke her silence concerning the reboot, with Tomlin hoping Jennifer Aniston “has nice success.”

“It’s a tough nut to crack as a result of the problems are considerably completely different,” she instructed Variety of how society has modified because the 80s. “There’s nonetheless the undercurrent of the identical sort of negativity in direction of females … [they’re] not easy-to-solve points. So we’re very desirous to see what they do.”

She echoed this mindset in an interview with Individuals, expressing, “We had one official crack on the script. The draft simply didn’t work for us. We couldn’t actually see the work world immediately [in the pages]. Individuals make money working from home. They take gig work. They don’t even know their boss. They’re at house!”

It is going to be attention-grabbing to see how the upcoming venture will pan out. At the moment, there isn’t a launch date for the “9 to five” remake.