Anne Hathaway Shares ‘Princess Diaries 3’ Update After Having To “Start Over”: “We Had A Story Breakthrough”

Anne Hathaway is giving an update on The Princess Diaries 3 after years in development.

In a new interview, Hathaway revealed that the script they had been working on had to be scrapped for a new direction and that they had recently had a “breakthrough.”

“I’m busy making baby number three, and that has sort of taken the place of knowing when exactly I can make Princess Diaries 3,” Hathaway said on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.

Hathaway, who was promoting Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, added, “I can say I think we had a story breakthrough. I think we are moving in the right direction. The script that we were working on — we kind of had to start over with this new direction, which is not the update I think anybody wants, but we all feel really good that this is gonna be the one.”

In 2024, Deadline reported Adele Lim was attached to direct the third installment of The Princess Diaries saga with Flora Greeson writing the screenplay. Producers on the film included Debra Martin Chase, Naia Cucukov and Melissa Stack.

The Princess Diaries, directed by Garry Marshall, followed Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, an ordinary high school student whose life is upended when her grandmother (Julie Andrews) reveals she is next in line for the throne of Genovia. A sequel, The Princess Diaries: Royal Engagement, followed in 2004, with both films grossing $300M globally.

Earlier this year, Hathaway told Entertainment Weekly that the team was “constantly working” on the sequel, adding, “If I learned anything from [Devil Wears Prada 2], it’s that expectations are very, very high, and if you’re going to do it, you have to knock it out of the park.”