‘The Vacation’ Restricted Collection Based mostly On Nancy Meyers Film Set At Apple

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Meyers’ beloved film The Vacation is getting a TV remedy. Apple TV+ has within the works a restricted collection adaptation of the 2006 romantic comedy, which starred Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Regulation and Jack Black, sources inform Deadline. It reboots the premise of the movie with new characters.

Krissie Ducker (Sweetpea) is author/govt producer for The Vacation collection, produced by Left Financial institution Photos, with Rob Delaney (Disaster) additionally introduced on as a advisor. Meyers has no involvement within the mission, I hear.

The restricted collection retains the setup of the film a couple of single American and single British lady residing very totally different lives who swap their homes for the vacations and discover love within the course of.

Search is underway for well-known actresses to play the leads, with the primary gives despatched out on each side of the Atlantic. If/when stars are locked in, the restricted collection, which comes from Apple TV+’s UK staff, is predicted to get a inexperienced gentle.

The 2006 film, written, directed and produced by Meyers, revolved round Amanda (Diaz), a Los Angeles film trailer firm proprietor, and Iris, a London newspaper columnist who change their homes on a whim after every suffers a heartbreak. Amanda meets Iris’ widower brother (Regulation) whereas Iris meets an affiliate of Amanda’s, a movie composer (Black).

Launched through the 2006 vacation season, The Vacation was a box-office success and, nearly twenty years later, it stays a Christmas staple (regardless of Meyers by no means intending for it to be a Christmas film).

Actor-writer Delaney co-created and starred with Sharon Horgan on the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy collection Disaster. This marks his return to Apple TV+ the place he starred in Season 1 of Dangerous Monkey. He was most not too long ago seen within the FX restricted collection Dying For Intercourse and the film Deadpool & Wolverine.

Ducker, who labored as a writers assistant on Disaster, has served as author/co-executive producer on Sweetpea and author/govt producer on The Murderer.