"Sex And The City: The Movie" Sequel Plans Confirmed

Buried in FoxNews 411 today is news straight from the horse's mouth that a plan for a "Sex and the City: The Movie" sequel is movie ahead.

Michael Patrick King thought there would be sequels to "Sex and the City: the Movie."

Thursday night at the Public Library party for the DVD of the film, he and Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed it. He's off to write the next installment. Both SJP and Kim Cattrall told me they're excited to see what he comes up with.

At the same time, Candace Bushnell announced that she's writing a "prequel" to the ladies' lives, taking them maybe from teen through college years to the time they all met.

King told me, quipping, "I'm thinking of doing an animated version of them as babies."

SJP added, "Let's wring everything we can out of this thing!"

It didn't hurt that she was dressed and styled like a modern Audrey Hepburn, and that she worked the pink carpet full of media outside the Library like a pro. There just is not a more gracious movie or TV star around.

Meanwhile, Us reports from the party:

Sarah Jessica Parker tells Usmagazine.com that she and writer Michael Patrick King will "have that conversation sooner rather than later."

At Thursday's DVD party in NYC, she said, "It's all about the story. If we can't tell a story that's really worthy of an audience, then we won't do it.

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"We've been really lucky at this point," she continued. "We've been in people's good graces for a long time, and we take that very seriously. So that's the biggest challenge, the story."

Cynthia Nixon told Us she has a few ideas for her character, feisty lawyer Miranda Hobbes.

"I would love to see her and Carrie and Charlotte and Samantha all go off on some wild mad cap adventure somewhere," she said.

Read about the prequel book "The Carrie Diaries."

Here are three of the ladies at the DVD launch party Thursday. Kristin Davis was in LA and couldn't attend:

Comments

[piul05]

NOOOoooo!!! Can't they find something else to do?? A western movie, a war zone movie, a trailer trash movie, a sci-fi movie, a horror movie - anything but "aren't-we­-cosmopoli­tan (not really, if the end of the series was anything to go by - Carrie couldn't cope with real France, only with the NY-styled bistro) beauties" movie ?

There was a time when actors were valued for the range of characters they convincingy gave life to; now they get stuck in one role and that's called a successful acting career.

[walk0nwalls]

So what, are we going to see BRATZ the Movie's sequel?

[provgrays]

These women are so old to continue this franchise, but it's profitable, so continue it will..

Only Kim Cattrall looks attractive in the above picture. The other two look like wax figures. The appeal of Sarah Jessica Parker is one of the great ongoing mysteries.

[Mustang Sally]

SJP keeps reminding me of the 5th race at Pimlico.

[Mustang Sally]

Oh great - another vacuous and vapid movie to miss.

[nycstacy]

guarantee obama makes a cameo in it, fits him perfectly

[Gary47]

And why not? You go, girls!

[rowzeer]

Yikes!!! when you get older you need to go a little easier on the makeup.

[rowzeer]

I like the TV show in the beginning the women seemed genuine and I enjoyed their personal interactions with each other...but by the end their pretensions and self involvement became hard to watch.

I now watch Entourage...it's what SATC used to be

[Alvin4NY]

No, no, no. Uh-uh. The problem with the last year of that show, and with the movie, had to do with the way Carrie was written. She was a perpetual loser who couldn't make up her mind, and deliberately chose mistakes and expected others to live through them. The evolution of the other three happened. They had all evolved radically from the way they started out (which the movie mistakenly threw away in the movie with improbable affairs, and overblown reactions not worthy of a 30 minute dramedy on HBO. It would have made more sense if Carrie had moved to Paris, been dumped by the Russian, and took to hosting the Paris version of The Robin Byrd Show. No one can put up with that chicks drama forever.

[helen]

Oh Gawd, please no...

[Topfeeder]

Why the long face SJP?

Is she sporting the Palin?

[stevefromkelso]

Straight from the horses mouth???? Intended pun?

[firewmn]

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Exciting... I love this show.. Love the movie.. and HOPE the writing for the next is just as playful..!
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thanks gals.. keep up the great entertaining..!
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[Triangle1]

This is pure entertainment. Anyone who is trying to "seek and find" profound writing, the complexity of their relationships and the effect on feminism is really bored. This is great fantasy escapism. Characters many of us can relate to because we've gone through the same quirky dating and relationship situations. Except they're doing it in $800 shoes and making it actually look fun. No one leaves this movie profoundly changed for the better, but while you're there, it sure is entertaining. I just saw the first movie, and I'll be seeing the second! Product placement or not. http://mespace.wordpress.com

[alexandrovich]

I believe this sequel was planned and confirmed many months ago. I saw the movie on a flight from California last week and I remembered all the criticism it garnered for its product placement. What really struck me was the emotional emptiness of most of the characters. Gone was the intensity and meaningful dialogue I saw on certain episodes of the tv series. The movie seemed rushed, the dialogue and plot predictable, and the direction pretty lazy. The complete unreality of the movie was whimsical but deflating. A lot of the pleasure from the tv show was seeing some of the actresses in sloppy, real life clothes (Miranda for example), and hearing witty dialogue that wasn't so self-consciously scripted.
Good bye to real struggles like fighting cancer and finding work; hello to mindless shopping and pretending to go to work.
SJP may or may not be a great actress (Cynthia Nixon certainly is, sorry to whoever wrote the opposite opinion above), but this is pretty much her main gig and she might want to try harder as a producer on the next movie, and maybe ease up as an actress too.
And in my opinion, a black dress and heavy eyeliner doesn't make anybody another Audrey Hepburn. You have to have a lot more than that to be in her league.

[GretaR]

I agree with your sentiments about the movie. My first impression was (my word choice) "forced".

[One of my favorite lines from the tv show was delivered after Mr. Big and Carrie (in just-friend modes) and a jazz club owner, with whom Carrie sparked that night, share a taxi -- during which jazz club owner asks/gets Carrie's phone number. Carrie: "After recovering from my bizarre menage a taxi..." (The whole episode was clever.) That clever writing -- the movie's only raison d'etre -- was MIA from the movie.]

I think that the only way to go with a "sequel" is in reverse...prequel (just one!). Would take some skillful writing. Given the movie, I'd say pass on King.

[sfsilver]

I have no reason to believe that more Sex and the City will do anything other than bring more joy into my life. I welcome it all. Clearly whoever selects photos hates Sex and the City, that is not a flattering photo of the gals.