Warner Bros. has apparently greenlit a follow-up to 2005’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, a film that certainly found its target audience to the tune of $39 million. Word out of Variety is that Something New helmer, Sanaa Hamri, will direct the feature and the first film’s stars – America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel and Blake Lively – are all in talks to reprise their roles.
The sequel uses as its foundation “Forever in Blue,” the fourth installment of the “Pants” novel series by Ann Brashares. Bits of the second and third books will also be used. The girls once again take different paths during the summer, but remain bonded by a pair of secondhand pants they take turns wearing.
Now college age, the girls have storylines that take place in Turkey, Greece, New York, Vermont and Providence. They faced some heavy dilemmas in the original film, but the sequel concentrates on issues 19-year old girls deal with. While the original film was PG rated, the sequel is likely to be PG-13.
The plan is to begin filming on June 3, starting in Greece, then moving to New York and Connecticut, as they work out scheduling thanks to the television schedules of the four stars. Ferrera stars in “Ugly Betty”, Tamblyn is apparently going to work on “Babylon Fields” for CBS, Bledel has “Gilmore Girls” and Lively has “Gossip Girls”.
