Not quite the early Christmas surprise that Nancy Meyers was expecting, The Holiday is getting a limited series reboot.
After Deadline exclusively revealed Friday that Apple TV+ is developing a series based on Meyers’ 2006 holiday romantic comedy, the writer and director said she was unaware of the adaptation until she saw the announcement.
“News to me,” wrote Meyers on her Instagram Story with coverage of the limited series. “Imagine my surprise when I opened Instagram and this was the first post I saw.”
A box office hit during the 2006 Christmas season, The Holiday followed Iris (Kate Winslet), a columnist in London, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz), a movie trailer editor in Los Angeles, who initiate a house swap for a much-needed change of scenery. The movie also starred Jude Law and Jack Black.
Deadline previously reported that Meyers has no involvement with the upcoming adaptation, which reboots the premise of the film with new characters, keeping the setup of the movie about a single American and single British woman living very different lives who swap their houses for the holidays and find love in the process.
Jude Law and Cameron Diaz in ‘The Holiday’ (2006) (Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Krissie Ducker (Sweetpea) is writer/executive producer for the series, produced by Left Bank Pictures, with Rob Delaney (Catastrophe) also brought on as a consultant.
Search is underway for well-known actresses to play the leads, with the first offers sent out on both sides of the Atlantic. If/when stars are locked in, the limited series, which comes from Apple TV+‘s UK team, is expected to get a green light.
