Variety announces – Warner bringing Emily Post to bigscreen!
Warner Bros. is minding its Ps and Qs with a project based on the manners maven Emily Post.
Studio is developing an untitled romantic comedy that will play off the late Post’s bestselling book “Etiquette” — now in its 17th edition — and the empire it spawned, including books, seminars and etiquette coaching.
Described as a “My Fair Lady” with the gender roles reversed, story centers on a prissy Emily Post manners coach who turns a rough-around-the-edges guy into a proper gentleman.
Warners sparked to a treatment written by Nick Osborne, who runs the production side of Underground Films. Osborne, who will produce with Underground’s Trevor Engelson, received the cooperation of Emily Post Institute in November after members of Post’s family read his initial treatment. The institute provided input to Osborne, and then Underground shopped the revised treatment to Warner Bros., which just closed a deal with the institute to develop.
Needless to say we are all hoping this project continues to move forward. Please use the comments to tell us what you would like to see in a movie about Emily Post.
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Dear Emily,
When one is invited to an engagement party but cannot attend, AND one is a member of the bridal party, is she required to send an engagement present? I am recently engaged and am not planning to have an engagement party, so there will be no opportunity for the couple to reciprocate. I understand that the general rule is that gifts are not required for an engagement party, but I thought that this might be a special circumstance.
Confused Bridesmaid
An engagement gift is not necessary, though possibility of reciprocation should not enter into the equation at all. A gift, regardless of the occasion, is best founded in genuine affection.