Sony is Developing a New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Movie

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(L to R): Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Photo: ABC.

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Sony has a new ‘Charlie’s Angels’ movie in development.
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ co-writer Pete Chiarelli is on script duty.
There are no casting or director details yet.

Despite some less-than-successful attempts across the last decade or so, Sony clearly sees the upcoming 50th anniversary of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ as a reason to try to craft a new movie featuring crime-fighting women.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The studio has ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ co-writer Pete Chiarelli developing a script for another new take on the characters.

Release Date: Nov 2, 2000

Run Time: 1 hr 38 min

Budget: $92,000,000

We’ll have to wait and see who ends up taking this one on –– will it be a totally fresh take or could the company look to reunite movie trio Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz (more on them below)?

What’s the story of ‘Charlie’s Angels’?

(L to R) Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska and Naomi Scott in 2019’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.

The show, a crime drama about a trio of women working at the Townsend private detective agency, debuted in 1976 and quickly dominated the pop culture conversation. The series originally cast Kate Jackson,Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith in the leading roles — and catapulted them into TV history.

Cheryl Ladd joined the show in season 2 and starred through the rest of its 115-episode run. John Forsythe voiced their unseen boss, Charlie Townsend, who directed the operation over the telephone.

Barrymore, Liu and Diaz starred in two movie versions in 2000 and 2003, but more recent attempts, including a new TV series and director Elizabeth Banks’ 2019 film, didn’t fare as well.

There’s no word yet on what Chiarelli’s take might be.