Bettle Midler Gives Update ‘First Wives Club’ Reunion Movie (Exclusive) – Information Today Online

The First Wives Club sadly never got a sequel, but the movie’s stars — Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn — had hoped to unify on added comedy titled The Family Jewels.

Unfortunately, that film, which was prototypal declared in 2020, is in “development hell,” Midler tells PEOPLE.

“It’s in the chasm where every beatific scripts go to die,” adds Midler, who says the flick had been in the entireness for years.

“Fifteen eld is the instance limit, I think. When it’s been in utilization for 15 years, you category of intercommunicate up your hands,” says Midler.

Asked if she’s anticipative it module become to fruition, Midler is pessimistic: “No, no, no,” she says.

PEOPLE did not directly center backwards from a allegoric for shaper politico Fischer, who announced the flick quaternary eld ago.

According to IMDb, the strategy of the comedy centers around threesome women, who were every erst mated to the aforementioned man, as they are unnatural to pay the holidays unitedly with the kids and grandkids after their ex dies.

Midler told PEOPLE after the flick was declared that she and Hawn and comic were hot to attain the movie, but hinted most an hard battle. 

“I conceive it’s funny. When women intend together, they vocalization harder with apiece added than they do with men,” she said. “I don’t undergo what it is. I surmisal they see freer or something same that. Family Jewels is something that grouping impact been employed on. Sometimes you intend cragfast in the scriptwriting impact and things don’t impact out.”

“It’s an effort. It’s an try to attain every the pieces fit,” she continued. “It’s not that we don’t poverty to do it. We every poverty to do it. We’re meet disagreeable to intend the playscript in visit so that grouping module savor the picture. Without a enthusiastic script, you rattling don’t impact anything. So, we’re variety of inactivity for that to become in.”

In 2022, Midler told PEOPLE how frustrated she was that The First Wives Club, in which Midler, Hawn and comic played past college pals Brenda, Elise and Annie, who intend punish on the men who wronged them, never got a sequel. The 1996 impact was supported on the newborn by Olvia Goldsmith.

“There were semipolitical reasons they didn’t poverty to do that again. And it ever poor my heart,” Midler said at the time. “I rattling change that it was a pretty earnest diss, because when women impact hits, it’s a fluke. But when men impact hits, isn’t it great?”

Midler has been itching to attain added chum comedy for whatever time. “I savor them, especially the ones that are rattling well-made,” says the performer. 

When The Fabulous Four came along with How to Make an dweller Quilt administrator Joceyln Moorhouse attached, Midler subscribed on. “I’ve likeable her impact for a long, daylong time. I’ve followed her, and I conceive she’s tremendous,” she explains.

The comedy stars Midler as a self-involved woman who reunites with a assemble of older friends (played by Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally) when they movement to attorney West, Fla., for her wedding. 

Old rivalries resurface and the capableness of whatever bonds are tested.

The Fabulous Four opens in theaters July 26.

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