Drew Barrymore wants to remake cult-classic film with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston

Drew Bar­ry­more announced on her day­time show that she’d be keen to remake the cult-clas­sic Death Becomes Her along­side for­mer co-stars Adam San­dler and Jen­nifer Anis­ton.

“We’ve bat­ted around some ideas,” she said on her talk show. “As a joke, we say we’ll make the Three’s Com­pa­ny movie, but I’m real­ly bull­ish on Death Becomes Her, a remake of that.”

Robert Zemeck­is’ 1992 film starred Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Isabel­la Rosselli­ni, and Bruce Willis.

The icon­ic film fol­lows Made­line Ash­ton (Streep) and Helen Sharp (Hawn), who engage in a fight to the death over a man after drink­ing a mag­ic potion which grants them immor­tal­i­ty.

Praised for the grue­some­ly hilar­i­ous dynam­ic between its per­form­ers, the film earned an Oscar for its visu­al effects, a cult fol­low­ing, and a Broad­way musi­cal adap­ta­tion.

Although Bar­ry­more has yet to star in any­thing since the Net­flix series finale of The San­ta Clari­ta Diet in 2019, the Gold­en Globe recip­i­ent said she would return to the big screen if giv­en the chance to work with San­dler again.

“Same per­son, Adam San­dler. Always Adam,” she said on The Drew Bar­ry­more Show. “Adam knows that I real­ly want to work with him and Jen­nifer Anis­ton togeth­er. They both know that.”

Despite the trio work­ing on sev­er­al films with each oth­er, the three have nev­er been cast in one movie togeth­er.

San­dler and Bar­ry­more have a long his­to­ry of col­lab­o­ra­tion, hav­ing worked on films such as The Wed­ding Singer (1998), 50 First Dates (2004), and Blend­ed (2014).

San­dler and Anis­ton co-starred on Just Go With It (2011) and Mur­der Mys­tery (2019). Addi­tion­al­ly, Bar­ry­more and Anis­ton worked along­side one anoth­er on projects like He’s Just Not That Into You (2009).

The three even dis­cussed the sub­ject of star­ring togeth­er on Barrymore’s show when San­dler and Anis­ton were pro­mot­ing their Net­flix orig­i­nal Mur­der Mys­tery 2 in 2023.

Mean­while, Sandler’s new film Jay Kel­ly, which also stars George Clooney, received a 10-minute stand­ing ova­tion fol­low­ing its pre­miere at the Venice Film Fes­ti­val.

In the film direct­ed by Noah Baum­bach, Clooney plays an age­ing movie star on a trip through Europe with his long­time man­ag­er, por­trayed by San­dler. Lau­ra Dern, Gre­ta Ger­wig, Bil­ly Crudup, Sta­cy Keach, Riley Keough, Patrick Wil­son, Jim Broad­bent, Eve Hew­son, Lenny Hen­ry, and Isla Fish­er also star.

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