Lily Tomlin Talks About Jennifer Aniston’s ‘9 To 5’ Remake And Why The Original Co-Stars Passed On A Sequel
deadline.comLily Tomlin knows that a remake of the 1980 comedy classic 9 to 5 would be tricky. Particularly since the world she, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton parodied has changed so much.
And that’s why a sequel never happened. “We had one official crack at the script,” Tomlin said in a People interview. “The draft just didn’t work for us.
We couldn’t really see the work world today [in the pages]. People work from home. They take gig work. They don’t even know their boss.
They’re at home!” The trio ended up passing, with Parton telling Entertainment Tonight that the women had “dropped that whole idea.” “I don’t think we’re going to do the sequel,” she said at the time. “We never could get the script where it was enough different than the first one, and that one turned out so good.” Jennifer Aniston is producing a reimagining of 9 to 5, with a script by Oscar winner Diablo Cody.
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