“The Princess Diaries 3″ is officially happening.
Anne Hathaway confirmed the news on Instagram on Friday.
In the video, Hathaway counted to three with videos of her as Mia Thermopolis and Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi both saying, “Shut up!”
Hathaway wrote that Adele Lim will direct the film.
The first “The Princess Diaries” film debuted in 2001 and “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” premiered in 2004.
There is no word yet on who from the original cast will return for the third film.
What is the ‘Princess Diaries’ franchise about?
The movies follow San Francisco resident Mia Thermopolis, played by Hathaway, as she learns she is actually the princess of the small kingdom of Genovia. Andrews plays her regal grandmother who has to teach the American teenager to fit in to their royal family.
In the second film, Mia gets accustomed to life as a royal and is expected to get married to able to become queen.
What has been said before about a ‘Princess Diaries 3’?
TODAY.com previously went straight to the top to ask Queen Clarisse Rinaldi herself — ahem, Andrews — for the inside scoop.
“Ah, I have been asked that so many times,” Andrews said in April 2024, while chatting about the new picture book she wrote with her daughter, Emma Watson Hamilton.
“There was dialogue about it,” she said, but “nothing had been realized. And I think I may be wrong, but I think it’s been shelved now. I can’t be sure.”
At the time, Andrews didn’t think the franchise would live on in some form, however: “I’m sure there will be another version on another day.”
Pausing to muse about the possibility of a third movie, Andrews said, “It’s quite a long time now since the two ‘Diaries’ were done, and I’m not sure, but sometimes it’s best to leave a good thing alone. I don’t like it when people milk and milk and milk the subject, you know, ‘til it’s dead.”
However, she added, “I’d be very happy if we did do another one. But I don’t expect to.”
In 2019, Hathaway said there was a script for the third movie on an episode of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live.”
She told Andy Cohen, “I want to do it. Julie (Andrews) wants to do it. Debra Martin Chase, our producer, wants to do it. We all really want it to happen.”
In 2022, Andrews told The Hollywood Reporter prior to being honored with an AFI Life Achievement Award that it was likely “too late” for a third film, especially after director Garry Marshall died in 2016.
