Paramount Pictures is looking to score a major win for fans of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
The studio is developing a sequel feature to the hit 2003 romantic-comedy movie that starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
This project is still in early development and currently seeks a screenwriter, as it also has not yet attached any castmembers. Hudson is set to produce alongside Stacey Sher for Shiny Penny Productions.
The studio’s plan is to ideally attach Hudson and McConaughey to reprise their roles from the original feature that surpassed $177 million at the global box office.
Paramount released How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in theaters on Feb. 7, 2003. The film centered on Andie (Hudson), a magazine editor aiming to write an article about ways that women push men away. She sets out to pen the story based on her interactions with Ben (McConaughey), an advertising exec who is secretly confident that he can land any woman he wants as a date to his company’s ball.
The initial 2003 comedy from filmmaker Donald Petrie — who was also known for 1988’s Mystic Pizza, 1993’s Grumpy Old Men and 2000’s Miss Congeniality — was loosely based on Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long’s picture book of the same name. It became a signature film for the two leads and remains one of the more fondly remembered rom-coms of the current century.
In 2024, McConaughey reminisced to People about meeting with Hudson before the start of production. “Immediately, we were comfortable with each other, and we jacked with each other, and we busted each other’s chops, and we laughed a lot,” he recalled. “There was a bit of rock and roll exchange, like, ‘Oh, this could be some heavyweight fun.’ And I think that’s why I was cast, and that’s why, for whatever extent, it worked.”
Successful rom-coms about magazine staffers named Andy or Andie have become popular fodder for sequels as Hollywood continues to prioritize nostalgia. Earlier this year, Disney released The Devil Wears Prada 2 — starring Anne Hathaway as editorial assistant Andy in the follow-up to the 2006 hit — with the latest title grossing $692 million globally.
McConaughey recently told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the title from his catalog that gives his biggest residual checks. He noted, “It still pays the best ‘mailbox money’ of any film I’ve ever done, by far.”
Variety was first to report on the sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
