In 1996, The First Wives Club was released and became a hit. The dark comedy, starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton as three jilted, middle-aged wives who exact a plan of revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women, scored $181.4 million on a $26 million budget to become one of the more underrated comedy classics of the ’90s.

According to THR, the three legendary actresses are reuniting for Family Jewels, a new comedy about dysfunctional families. Originally titled Divination and originally to be a Netflix Original, the film has been in the works since 2015 and is now being produced by New Republic Pictures.

The multigenerational comedy will star the trio as three women who are forced to spend Christmas together, along with their kids and grandkids, after the man they all three used to be married to drops dead in a New York City department store just before the holidays.

Family Jewels will reunite the three for the first time in over 20 years. While Keaton has stayed busy and in front of the camera, both Midler and Hawn have scaled back on the acting projects they’ve taken on in the last few years. Both have only been in three features in the last decade, but both have one other feature project in the works along with Family Jewels. As with Rick Moranis coming out of retirement to do Shrunk for Disney, we can hope it’s a sign both are deciding to do more on-screen work.

Meanwhile, New Republic President and CCO Bradley Fischer, who is producing, said Family Jewels slots nicely into the future plans for New Republic, which launched less than two years ago: “This movie fits perfectly in our plan to finance and produce four to six major studio theatricals a year and puts movie stars back where they ought to be: on the big screen.”

There are few stars with as much power and prestige, collectively. than Keaton, Midler and Hawn. Between the three of them, they have 8 Oscar nominations and 2 wins, 25 Golden Globe nominations and 6 wins, 12 Emmy nominations and 3 wins and 5 Grammys on top of that. Each is iconic in her own right, inspiring a generation to follow in their footsteps: Midler, the comedy legend that others aspired to emulate. Hawn inspired women everywhere to embrace a beachy, California golden girl vibe. And Keaton launched an entire trend of women in menswear with Annie Hall.

Peter Hoare is writing the script, with the project aiming for a production start date later this year.

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