Pete Davidson rolls over in an unmade bed and looks down at his phone. It’s a dating app notification. He thumbs through four photos of Sydney Sweeney, sighs, and opens ChatGPT. “Read this profile and send her something witty,” he instructs the bot. On the other side of New York, in a surprisingly spacious apartment for a 20-something, Sweeney’s phone pings. “Hey Gemini,” she says without looking, “Reply.”
Is this what we’ve got to look forward to from the recently announced reboot of You’ve Got Mail? It’s too early to say. At this stage, all we know is that director Jason Orley (a longtime collaborator of former SNL star Davidson) is attached to direct at Warner Bros., and he’s currently reworking a script cooked up by Can’t Hardly Wait scribes Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. The challenge facing them is how to make a story about star-crossed pen pals make sense in an age of post-literate dating.
