Don’t tell us you didn’t hear the dial-up tone in your head just now.

MovieWeb reports that Warner Bros. is developing a new take on *You’ve Got Mail*, the 1998 Nora Ephron classic that made Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan the defining rom-com duo of a generation. Deadline first broke the news on Tuesday, November 10: filmmaker Jason Orley — the director behind *I Want You Back* and *Big Time Adolescence* — is attached to write and direct.

Orley is working from an earlier screenplay by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, the duo behind *Can’t Hardly Wait* and *Josie and the Pussycats*. Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing. No cast has been announced, no release date has been set, and Warner Bros. is keeping its exact take under wraps.

Here’s the thing, though: the original is almost impossible to remake straight. In 1998, the whole movie ran on anonymous emails and dial-up — Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox falling in love as “Shopgirl” and “NY152” while his bookstore empire quietly put her little shop out of business. In 2026, that meet-cute starts in the DMs, on a dating app, or not at all. The studio knows it, and the internet knows it — Parade reports social media spent the day roasting the announcement, with plenty of fans arguing the film simply doesn’t work in 2026.

And yet — the original was itself a remake, of 1940’s *The Shop Around the Corner*, which was based on the play *Parfumerie*. This story has been retold for nearly a century because the core of it still lands: two people who can’t stand each other in real life, falling for each other in secret. Toledo rom-com fans, the question isn’t whether the remake happens. It’s who could possibly fill Hanks and Ryan’s shoes. Sound off in the comments.

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