It's been 22 years since Mia Thermopolis last stepped into Genovia.
An entire generation grew up. Got jobs. Got tired.
And somehow… the tiara never stopped trending.
Now, finally — there's a script. A real one.
The woman who wrote the books that started it all just dropped the update fans have been waiting two decades for.
Her verdict on the new Princess Diaries 3 screenplay?
🔥 "It was amazing."
She loved it so much, she literally told the studio to stop sending her drafts.
In her words: "I told them not to send anymore, because I love it so much… Better not send me any more scripts!"
Translation: she doesn't want to spoil it for herself. That's how good she thinks it is.
This film has been stuck in development purgatory for a very long time.
Quick timeline:
Director Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians, Raya) is steering the ship. Garry Marshall's daughter Kathleen is closely involved. Producer Debra Martin Chase is back too.
The original family is showing up.
Anne Hathaway said it herself earlier this year while promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2:
👉 "Expectations are very, very high, and if you're going to do it, you have to knock it out of the park."
That's the thing about beloved nostalgia properties.
You don't just need a movie.
You need a moment.
Get it right — and you reignite a franchise for a whole new generation.
Get it wrong — and you bruise something millions of people still hold sacred.
Hathaway is on the hottest run of her career.
Devil Wears Prada 2. Mother Mary. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The Verity adaptation with Dakota Johnson.
She's not coming back to Genovia because she needs to.
She's coming back because she wants to.
And if Meg Cabot — the woman who invented Mia Thermopolis — is telling the studio to stop teasing her with new drafts because the current one is too good…
That's the strongest signal we've gotten in 22 years.
The tiara is coming back. And this time, it might actually deserve the throne.
That's all for now!
