I can’t believe this is actually a thing that’s happening. I was a 12-year-old TV-addicted kid when Troop Beverly Hills was…was it ever in theaters? Probably, but for me it was just that movie with Shelley Long (who I had a serious crush on) and Jenny Lewis (who I would have a crush on later, like right now) that was on TV a lot. And now thirty-one years later, Sony has seen fit to give the fashion-forward all-girl comedy a sequel.
Deadline reports that a Troop Beverly Hills sequel is in the works with Israeli filmmaker Oran Zegman behind the camera. The original movie starred Long as a Beverly Hills socialite who becomes den mother to her daughter’s girl scout troop, creating quite the fish-out-of-water scenario.
Ayesha Carr, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer who is now showrunner on Hulu series Woke, wrote the script, which got a rewrite by Tamara Chestna.
So here’s my one wish for this thing, if it’s going to happen. I don’t need to have Shelley Long back or anything, although that would be cool. But can they please bring back Jenny Lewis as her now adult-aged daughter, who is going through a similar wilderness experience with her own kid? Because “Doing the Freddie” must be passed down to a new generation.
