Warner Bros. is moving forward with a fresh adaptation of the 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, Deadline reported on November 10, 2026. Director Jason Orley is attached to helm the project and is currently writing the draft, building from an earlier screenplay by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont.
Plot specifics for the new version remain under wraps. The original film, directed by Nora Ephron from a script she co-wrote with her sister Delia Ephron, starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as rival New York bookstore owners who unknowingly fall for each other through anonymous online correspondence. It updated the premise of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch classic The Shop Around the Corner (itself drawn from Miklós László’s play Parfumerie) for the early internet age, centering on email and the tension between independent bookstores and corporate chains. Released by Warner Bros. in December 1998, it grossed more than $250 million worldwide and marked the third pairing of Hanks and Ryan after Joe Versus the Volcano and Sleepless in Seattle.
Orley, whose credits include the Amazon romantic comedy I Want You Back (2022) starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate as well as the Sundance-premiered Big Time Adolescence (2019) with Pete Davidson, has experience in the genre. He recently finished post-production on the Amazon comedy Close Personal Friends, featuring Brie Larson, Jack Quaid, Lily Collins, and Henry Golding. Kaplan and Elfont, longtime writing partners, previously wrote and directed Can’t Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats, and have screenplay credits on rom-coms including Leap Year and Made of Honor.
Producer Neal Moritz, whose Original Film banner is behind major franchises such as the Fast & Furious series, is producing alongside Tania Landau. Moritz is coming off the romantic comedy Beach Read, an adaptation of Emily Henry’s novel.
The project arrives nearly three decades after the original film captured the novelty of digital connection. No casting announcements or production timeline have been shared.
