Sex & The City Director Explains Why He Decided To Make A Reboot Show

Sex & The City Director Explains Why He Decided To Make A Reboot Show

Michael Patrick King, the creator of the Sex & The City reboot, explains why he wanted to bring back these iconic characters into their 50s.

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Sex & The City Director Explains Why He Decided To Make A Reboot Show

Much like many other beloved television shows and movies from yesteryear, Sex and the City is receiving its own reboot thanks to longtime producer, writer, and director Michael Patrick King, who says the idea for revisiting the show and characters has always been on his mind. The revival is titled And Just Like That… and continues to be set in New York City. Now, however, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) are in their 50s and dealing with a radically different New York than the one from the 90s, including a COVID-19 plotline. Samantha, played by Kim Cattrall, is the only member of Carrie’s tight-knit friend group not returning for the reboot, but new members have been added to the cast including Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy), Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights, Remember the Titans), Karen Pittman (The Morning Show, Yellowstone), and Sarita Choudhury (Lady in the Water, A Perfect Murder).

King has been a part of the Sex and the City family since the show’s pilot stage and was prominent in the show’s production team until the show’s final season. Later, King went on to write and direct the two following Sex and the City movies in 2008 and 2010. Though the movies were largely received as failures, And Just Like That… offers King the chance to fix the issues that arose in the movies. Outside of Sex and the City, King has created other critically successful shows like HBO’s The Comeback, and CBS’s Two Broke Girls.

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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, King says he has always wanted to keep revisiting the characters of Sex and the City. The decision to move forward with a revival was to “see how their lives have evolved” as the world around them has evolved. He emphasizes “so much happens from 35 to 55.” And Just Like That… will have a 10-episode limited run on HBO, with thirty-minute episodes, which, according to King, allows the new character to develop. Read King’s full comment below.

“I’ve always had an idea for a story, and it’s best served in a series because of the amount of story that you can tell in 10 episodes. You can really bring in new characters and have their lives actually be in the show rather than just be a side dish. So, the softest pitch of this is somebody saying, ‘Hey, I saw Carrie Bradshaw on the street the other day.’ And someone else saying, ‘How’d she look?’ I mean, that’s the simplest [way to explain it], seeing somebody you haven’t seen on the street, and they’re still them. Because to me, these characters have always been alive, and the city is incredibly alive. But the world has changed so much that I thought, ‘How interesting if we could see how their lives have evolved, the world has evolved, society has evolved, what we talk about has evolved, what we don’t talk about has evolved. Plus, relationships have evolved and marriages come and go. So much happens from 35 to 55.’”

The series is set to premiere on December 9 on HBO Max. The recently released full trailer reveals a return of Mr. Big, Carrie’s husband, and the introduction of Nicole Ari Parker filling out the friend group. Other highlights include Carrie’s potential transition from columnist to podcaster while still maintaining a focus on her relationship and sex life. The exact plot for this series is still unknown, but the trailer puts a large stress on navigating life changes that may be impacting Carrie and Big.

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King’s idea of showing the characters evolving while staying true to who they are is apparent in the trailer. Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte seem to have aged beautifully and are ready to enter the next phase of their life, but even as they have aged, they feel the same as they did over twenty years ago. The representation of evolution is important because while the original 1998 series is beloved, society and culture have changed, which might make the original series less impactful than intended. Even Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell claims the show wasn’t a feminist work because it focused on Carrie’s desire to find a husband. In addition to And Just Like That…’s representation of personal growth, it also represents middle-aged women, who don’t get a lot of visibility in media, as well as being inclusive of people of color, who are notably largely absent from the original series.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/sex-city-just-like-that-creator-reboot-why/

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