I’ll present you ways helpful aughts IP will be! A TV collection impressed by Legally Blonde is “going to Harvard” (or, at the very least, Prime Video), which, as a millennial author, presents a problem: what number of movie references can I feasibly match right into a 350-word information story? (So much.) Reese Witherspoon—who, it have to be stated, reclaimed the phrase bimbo 20 years earlier than TikTok—is reportedly collaborating with Amazon to develop “a TV offshoot” of the Legally Blonde franchise, with Gossip Woman and The OC’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage on board to write down the scripts.

There’s no phrase but on whether or not Reese herself will truly seem within the collection, though she’s beforehand spoken about her want to present “Woods comma Elle” the And Simply Like That… remedy. “I wish to uncover what age means to that character,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “Getting older, modern concepts, how issues have advanced—or not advanced.” (Issues haven’t advanced.) I’m additionally struggling to conceive of something Legally Blonde-related with out at the very least a cameo from Jennifer Coolidge as Paulette Bonafonté (who ate crullers so Tanya McQuoid might binge “Oreo cookie cake”). Bruiser Woods, for what it’s value, received’t be returning; Moonie, the Chihuahua who performed him, died in 2016 (to be truthful, an excellent yr to take a look at) on the ripe outdated age of 18—a information merchandise coated, of all locations, by CNN.

This additionally raises some questions on when, if ever, we’re going to get a Legally Blonde III movie—as promised by Witherspoon way back to 2018 and initially slated for a 2020 launch. Mindy Kaling is on board to write down the screenplay with Parks and Rec’s Dan Goor, and with just about all the 2001 movie’s supporting characters (together with the Delta Nus) expressing curiosity in returning. On the one hand, possibly Barbie’s billion-dollar box-office efficiency would possibly give Reese the push she wants to maneuver ahead with manufacturing. On the opposite, how for much longer can the style trade fake it likes Barbie pink?