Almost two decades after emerging as a newspaper column - inspiring books, 94 TV episodes and subsequent films - Candace Bushnell's Sex in the City remains a hot topic.
Rumours were rife after the second film launched last year that another was on the cards and now it has emerged that SATC 3 will go ahead - with a new cast featuring some of Hollywood's hottest talents.
Taking form as a prequel the proposed project will be based on Bushnell's two novels, The Carrie Diaries and Summer And The City (published this year) which track the four individuals in their teenage years and early twenties before they become a united female front in New York.
It is rumoured that current preferences for the roles are Blake Lively as Samantha Jones, Selena Gomez as Charlotte York, Emma Roberts as Miranda Hobbes and Elizabeth Olsen as Carrie Bradshaw.
The news will come as a blow to many who hoped the characters would be played by the original cast or that a third movie would follow on from the second which ended with Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie and Chris Noth's Mr Big reconciling their differences after their marriage was threatened by an intervention by Carrie's former lover Aidan.
Even Sarah Jessica Parker who produced and starred in the two Michael Patrick King creations appeared averse to the idea earlier in this year.
Rumours were rife after the second film launched last year that another was on the cards and now it has emerged that SATC 3 will go ahead - with a new cast featuring some of Hollywood's hottest talents.
Taking form as a prequel the proposed project will be based on Bushnell's two novels, The Carrie Diaries and Summer And The City (published this year) which track the four individuals in their teenage years and early twenties before they become a united female front in New York.
It is rumoured that current preferences for the roles are Blake Lively as Samantha Jones, Selena Gomez as Charlotte York, Emma Roberts as Miranda Hobbes and Elizabeth Olsen as Carrie Bradshaw.
The news will come as a blow to many who hoped the characters would be played by the original cast or that a third movie would follow on from the second which ended with Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie and Chris Noth's Mr Big reconciling their differences after their marriage was threatened by an intervention by Carrie's former lover Aidan.
