'Sex and the City' ran for six seasons. Photo / Reuters
'Sex and the City' ran for six seasons. Photo / Reuters
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LOS ANGELES - Sarah Jessica Parker and her Sex and the City co-stars are set to resurrect their martini-sipping, bed-hopping characters for the big screen.
A script for a Sex and the City feature film is being penned and filming could begin later this year in New York.
A Sex and the City movie has been rumoured since the TV series ended in 2004 after six award-winning seasons, but there was resistance from the show's four leads, Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
Mario Cantone, who played the campy, short-tempered best friend of Davis' character, confirmed a script was being written by Sex and the City screenwriter, director and executive producer, Michael Patrick King.
"I know the script is being written and I know it will be brilliant because Michael Patrick King is writing it.
"I know that I'm in it. I have a nice part in it, I'm told.
"If it happens, we should film it in the early fall I think, but I hope it stays on course because I would love to do it."
The success of last year's female friendly The Devil Wears Prada, which earned US$320 ($473) million at the international box office, renewed interest in the Sex and the City movie.
"I think there's an audience for it," Cantone, a Tony Award nominated Broadway star and regular on the US TV talkshow, The View, said.
"There are girls who come up to me in the street in tears and say: 'When's the Sex and the City movie happening?'.
"If you look at The Devil Wears Prada, it was such a big success, this would do even better.
"Sex and the City has the audience and I think it's a good time to do it now because enough time has passed since the TV series ended."
