Sony Pictures is developing a new film version of Charlie’s Angels and has hired Pete Chiarelli to write the screenplay, with Flower Films—run by Drew Barrymore—returning as a producer, according to reports published Friday. The studio did not respond to requests for comment, and no director, cast or release timing has been announced, pointing to an early development phase rather than an active production track.
The project revives a property that has swung between breakout hits and hard resets. The 2000 big-screen launch, starring Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu alongside Barrymore, grossed about $264.1 million worldwide, while the 2003 follow-up “Full Throttle” cleared roughly $259.2 million worldwide.
A later attempt struggled. The 2019 reboot directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska finished with $73.3 million worldwide and $17.8 million domestic, data that made a sequel unlikely and put pressure on any next iteration to clarify its hook and scale.
Sony also tested the brand on television: a 2011 series at ABC ended after low ratings, with eight episodes produced and one left unaired in the U.S., according to contemporaneous accounts and episode histories. That stop-start record frames why the new film’s first public move—locking a writer known for studio romantic comedy and big adaptation work—reads as an attempt to rebuild the Angels for a different marketplace without committing to a full package upfront.
