Look Who’s Speaking author/director Amy Heckerling is engaged on a brand new undertaking within the franchise. “I’m not through with it yet.”
Are these speaking infants from Look Who’s Speaking about to make a comeback? Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed the unique film starring Kirstie Alley and John Travolta, instructed Empire that she’s at present engaged on a brand new Look Who’s Speaking undertaking.
“Who knows if it’ll become a ‘thing’,” Heckerling mentioned. “But I’m excited. I’m not through with [Look Who’s Talking] yet.” She added that she’s engaged on the brand new script together with her daughter Mollie, who was the inspiration for the unique film. “She was looking at us, we were looking at her,” the director defined. “Instantly, [we] began ad-libbing issues she is perhaps saying. In my thoughts, I used to be like: ‘Oh no. This is gonna be my next movie.’“
Look Who’s Speaking stars Kirstie Alley as Mollie, a single mom with a new child baby. Her son, Mikey, is voiced by Bruce Willis. John Travolta performs James, a cab driver who rushes a pregnant Mollie to the hospital and whom Mikey later determines can be his good father. The movie was an enormous success upon its launch in 1989, grossing over $297 million worldwide. It was adopted by Look Who’s Speaking Too, which launched a brand new child voiced by Roseanne Barr, and Look Who’s Speaking Now, which gave voice to the couple’s two canines, Rocks (Danny DeVito) and Daphne (Diane Keaton). It additionally spawned a spin-off TV collection titled Child Discuss, which featured a younger George Clooney.
There have been rumblings of a brand new Look Who’s Speaking film for years, with Quick & Livid producer Neal H. Moritz set to supply a reboot in 2010. A distinct reboot was later introduced in 2019 with author/director Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding ceremony Ringer), and John Travolta and Kirstie Alley had expressed a willingness to return. “John and I, we both really want to do it, because we think it’s funny that we’re the grandparents,” mentioned Alley in 2020. “We heard a rumor they were doing it, but I don’t know if it’s with us or without us.” Nevertheless, Alley’s dying in 2022 appeared to place the undertaking to relaxation.
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