Disney, If You’re Listening, Michael Moscovitz Would Return for a ‘Princess Diaries’ Reboot
variety.comManori Ravindran International Editor Who didn’t have a crush on Michael Moscovitz in 2001’s “The Princess Diaries”? Mia Thermopolis’s sweet, slightly awkward love interest — played by Robert Schwartzman — liked her well before she was ever Genovian royalty, had a cool band (Schwartzman’s actual band, Rooney), and even knew how to fix cars.
Fans will recall the devastation of the movie’s sequel, “The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement” (2004), in which Anne Hathaway’s Mia shrugs that her and Michael are now “just friends” because he was busy touring the country with his band.
She then gets together with Chris Pine, in his breakout role as Nicholas Deveraux. Schwartzman, the frontman of Rooney as well as the co-founder of U.S.
distributor Utopia, tells Variety that, in fact, he was touring with the band when he got the call informing him that he wouldn’t be in the sequel. “I was literally on a tour bus when they made that decision,” he says.
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