Richard Curtis has revealed that he has written a sequel to Notting Hill - but not as a movie, 24 years on from it's release.
The beloved romcom tells the love story of a British bookseller, played by Hugh Grant and an American actress, played by Julia Roberts.
Folloiwing it's release in 1999, it became the highest grossing British film of all time.
But instead of the sequel going straight to the big screen, the film director, 66, revealed that he considered bringing the stars of the romcom back together for a ten minute Comic Relief special.
Curtis shared: “Recently I wrote… I was going to do it for Comic Relief… I wrote Notting Hill 2, which was going to be a 10-minute special set in the divorce lawyer’s office with Hugh and Julia splitting up, and then they both realised they loved each other again.”
Not only that but Curtis hilariously recalled Hugh Grant, who he has worked with on Love Actually, Notting Hill as well as Four Wedding and a Funeral, turning him down for a new project, titled Meet Cute.
Speaking on the podcast, Have You Seen? with Mariella Frostrup and Peter Fincham, he explained: “John Cute. Meet John Cute. Again, it was a thing for Comic Relief, I had this idea that I was going to write a sequence of 10minute films and I talked to Hugh Grant about it.
“Every episode was going to be a 'meet Cute' where he met somebody, and then by the end of the episode, they were going to have split up, and then we’d have another ‘meet Cute’.
“And Hugh, who is, a man who’s 90% charity, everything about him is aiming to make the world a better place… and eventually, after consideration, he quoted me quite a large amount of money that he was going to give to Comic Relief not to do it. So it never happened!”
