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Legally Blonde 3 delayed until 2022

The third instalment of Legally Blonde has been delayed until 2022.

Originally due for release in the spring of 2020, the film has been delayed amind the Covid-19 pandemic, and will now hit cinemas in May 2022.

Elle Woods is back! Legally Blonde 3 coming May 2022. We rest our case. #LegallyBlonde3 #ElleWoods @ReeseW pic.twitter.com/WnxI1YEfqD
— MGM Studios (@MGM_Studios) October 20, 2020

For the new film, Mindy Kaling and Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator Dan Goor are writing the script, with Reese Witherspoon returning to star.

The original movie, which followed Witherspoon's Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen who is dumped by her boyfriend and decides to follow him to law school in an effort to win him back, was released in 2001.

A sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, was released in 2003. Both movies made over $120 million at the box office and in the years in-between the film has been transformed into a successful stage musical.

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