Does the sight of a Manolo Blahnik shoe leave you teary-eyed and nostalgic? When someone says the word ‘cosmopolitan’, do you immediately head for the nearest wine bar? If so, your prayers, and those of millions of TV fans across the world, will be answered when the hit series Sex & The City makes the jump from small to big screen this summer.
The idea of a movie had been kicked around by producers ever since the series ended in 2004. However, the project collapsed when Kim Cattrall pulled out, rumoured to be unhappy with her proposed salary for the film. A deal was struck in 2007, three years after the show had finished, and production could begin with Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte all ready to be revived. Whilst the filming locations were, of course, the streets of New York, some beach scenes had been filmed in Malibu, California, and the world’s paparazzi were out in force, trying to get a shot that would reveal some of the under-wraps plot.
Of course, all four stars will be returning, as well as Chris Noth as Mr. Big (whom we saw rekindle his romance with Carrie in the show’s final episode). The men in the girls’ lives will also make an appearance, with Smith (Jason Lewis), Steve (David Eigenberg), Harry (Evan Handler) and camp confidant Stanford (Willie Garson) all present and correct. Magda, Bitsy Von Muffling and Enid Frick also feature in the film. The movie is directed by Michael Patrick King, who directed 10 episodes of the series, and wrote the finale.
The plot has been drip-fed to fans through a couple of trailers. We find Carrie engaged to Mr. Big (or John, as we now know), and assuming that once the girls had found their ‘happy endings’, that would be the end of the story. However, the endings do not turn out as expected. There’s a hitch with the wedding, Charlotte falls pregnant, Steve betrays Miranda, and Samantha may not be as committed to Smith as she once had thought.
Will it be wedding bells for Carrie & Big?
As for new additions, the biggest would be Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), who will be playing Carrie’s personal assistant. Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, will appear in a cameo, although the same cannot be said for Victoria Beckham, whom was offered a cameo in the film but had to turn it down due to schedule conflicts with the Spice Girls’ reunion.
It’s likely that Mr. Bloomberg was not best pleased that the world premiere took place in Leicester Square, London, and not the show’s birthplace of New York. However, it’s unlikely that this brief show of disloyalty will dissuade the legions of followers of the fashionable four to head down to their cinemas and revisit some old friends!
Sex & The City: The Movie is out now!
Read our review here.
