The indie based on Nia Vardalos’ one-woman stage show — whose second sequel bows Sept. 8 — enchanted producers Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks and became the most successful rom-com of all time.
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“I could not stop laughing,” recalls Wilson. “My mom, my sister, my nieces, we were all hysterical because we were like, ‘This is exactly our life.’ ” Hanks saw the play the following week and concurred his wife had stumbled onto something special. And Vardalos was ready for her close-up, having already adapted the show into a screenplay.
“The one-woman show was very, very close to what the screenplay was. And the screenplay that we filmed was pretty much the screenplay that I was handed,” says Wilson.“None of the studios would finance us,” Wilson continues. “They wanted to replace Nia. They were like, ‘We need somebody with a name.’ And I kept thinking, ‘But she’s the writer. This is her story. The story’s enough.’ ”
In the end, Playtone itself financed the $5 million film and strategized an incremental expansion that built on positive word-of-mouth.And how: The 2002 film went on to earn $242 million domestically , making it the highest-grossing rom-com of all time.
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