- LOS ANGELES — Gil Junger, who directed the 1999 classic romantic comedy film “10
Things I Hate About You,” starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, has talked
about the follow up trilogy.
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- In a recent sit-down with People, Junger said he is
working on a follow-up trilogy with original “100 Things” producer Andrew
Lazar. The first film is titled “10 Things I Hate About Dating,” and would be
followed by “10 Things I Hate About Marriage” and “10 Things I Hate About
Kids,” reports variety.com.
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- “’10 Things I Hate About Dating’ is definitively in the
works as a feature film,” said Junger. “We’re developing it right now.”
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- Junger went on to say that he would “love” to work with
Stiles again because her “10 Things” character, Kat Stratford, “really spoke to
young women in a very powerful way.”
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- He also mentioned Larry Miller, who played Kat’s father,
as a possible returning cast member, although he said he “hasn’t thought” too
much about casting yet.
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- “If it resonates with (the original cast) and I can have
some cameos or even real parts, I’d love (that),” Junger said.
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- The original “10 Things I Hate About You” chronicles the
life of Stiles’ Kat Stratford, a witty but unpopular teen who lives in the shadow
of her overachieving younger sister Bianca, played by Larisa Oleynik.
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- The film also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa
Oleynik. The screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith is a
modernization of William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold
in a late-1990s American high school setting.
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- However, her lonely adolescence is remedied when she
meets outcast bad boy Patrick Verona, played by the late Ledger, who died in
2008 at 28 years old.
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