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Report Provider: CBR (Justin Harp)
Date: Published September 2, 2025 (Article created September 5, 2025)
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Sign in to your CBR account Sony Pictures Drew Barrymore has pitched an unexpected reunion with her Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates co-star Adam Sandler. Barrymore teased that Jennifer Aniston could join the duo in a remake of cult classic comedy Death Becomes Her. Per The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress recently chatted with Ross Mathews about what it would take for her to make a big-screen comeback.
Barrymore suggested a reunion with Sandler would be interesting — though she added that she also wanted to work with Aniston. "Always Adam," she told Mathews. "However, Adam knows that I really want to work with him and Jennifer Aniston together. They both know that!" Barrymore confirmed that she's "batted around some ideas" with Sandler and Aniston about projects, before joking that they could "make the Three's Company movie."
She added more seriously: "I'm really bullish on Death Becomes Her, a remake of that." The Robert Zemeckis-directed 1992 supernatural comedy Death Becomes Her featured Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep in a send-up of Hollywood glamor. Hawn and Streep played longtime acting rivals who each drank a magic potion to grant them eternal youth — yet the concoction also caused some gruesome side effects.
Death Becomes Her was largely panned by critics at the time of release, though it later became a cult classic due to its campy performances and tongue-in-cheek depiction of aging in Hollywood. While Death Becomes Her was seen as a critical and commercial failure in 1992, its pioneering use of CGI actually won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects over tough competition from Alien 3 and Batman Returns.
The film was recently adapted into a stage musical by Julia Mattison, Noel Carey and Marco Pennette, which received ten Tony nominations and won one award for Best Costume Design of a Musical earlier this year. The original Broadway cast featured Megan Hilty (Smash), Jennifer Simard (Shrek the Musical) and Christopher Sieber (The Good Wife) in the three leading parts, with former Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams in a featured role as the immortal diva Viola Van Horn.
Drew Barrymore Has a Long History With Both Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston Image via Netflix As for Barrymore, she has an established rapport with both Sandler and Aniston. Barrymore and Sandler were paired romantically in 1998's The Wedding Singer and 2004's 50 First Dates, before reuniting a decade later in the 2014 family comedy Blended.
Barrymore also previously worked with Friends star Aniston on the 2009 rom-com He's Just Not That Into You. Of course, Sandler and Aniston initially teamed up on the 2011 comedy Just Go with It — a remake of the Oscar-winning comedy Cactus Flower — and have more recently worked together on the Murder Mystery movies for Netflix.
Barrymore has hinted at returning to the big screen a few times in recent years. The actress-turned-talk show host had her last significant movie role in the 2020 romantic comedy The Stand In, though she has since had cameo roles in 2021's holiday movie A Castle for Christmas and in the horror blockbuster Smile 2 in 2024.
Barrymore also had a vocal cameo in 2022's Scream as a call-back to her memorable on-screen kill in the 1996 original. She hinted back in 2023 that a reunion with Sandler could convince her to return to acting. "As soon as you talk about Adam Sandler, I'm like, 'Oh, well maybe. Sure," she admitted on The Drew Barrymore Show in January 2023.
Death Becomes Her is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Death Becomes Her Release Date July 31, 1992 Runtime 104 Minutes Director Robert Zemeckis Writers Martin Donovan, David Koepp Main Genre Comedy Movies
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Sign in to your CBR account Sony Pictures Drew Barrymore has pitched an unexpected reunion with her Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates co-star Adam Sandler. Barrymore teased that Jennifer Aniston could join the duo in a remake of cult classic comedy Death Becomes Her. Per The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress recently chatted with Ross Mathews about what it would take for her to make a big-screen comeback.
Barrymore suggested a reunion with Sandler would be interesting — though she added that she also wanted to work with Aniston. "Always Adam," she told Mathews. "However, Adam knows that I really want to work with him and Jennifer Aniston together. They both know that!" Barrymore confirmed that she's "batted around some ideas" with Sandler and Aniston about projects, before joking that they could "make the Three's Company movie."
She added more seriously: "I'm really bullish on Death Becomes Her, a remake of that." The Robert Zemeckis-directed 1992 supernatural comedy Death Becomes Her featured Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep in a send-up of Hollywood glamor. Hawn and Streep played longtime acting rivals who each drank a magic potion to grant them eternal youth — yet the concoction also caused some gruesome side effects.
Death Becomes Her was largely panned by critics at the time of release, though it later became a cult classic due to its campy performances and tongue-in-cheek depiction of aging in Hollywood. While Death Becomes Her was seen as a critical and commercial failure in 1992, its pioneering use of CGI actually won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects over tough competition from Alien 3 and Batman Returns.
The film was recently adapted into a stage musical by Julia Mattison, Noel Carey and Marco Pennette, which received ten Tony nominations and won one award for Best Costume Design of a Musical earlier this year. The original Broadway cast featured Megan Hilty (Smash), Jennifer Simard (Shrek the Musical) and Christopher Sieber (The Good Wife) in the three leading parts, with former Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams in a featured role as the immortal diva Viola Van Horn.
Drew Barrymore Has a Long History With Both Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston Image via Netflix As for Barrymore, she has an established rapport with both Sandler and Aniston. Barrymore and Sandler were paired romantically in 1998's The Wedding Singer and 2004's 50 First Dates, before reuniting a decade later in the 2014 family comedy Blended.
Barrymore also previously worked with Friends star Aniston on the 2009 rom-com He's Just Not That Into You. Of course, Sandler and Aniston initially teamed up on the 2011 comedy Just Go with It — a remake of the Oscar-winning comedy Cactus Flower — and have more recently worked together on the Murder Mystery movies for Netflix.
Barrymore has hinted at returning to the big screen a few times in recent years. The actress-turned-talk show host had her last significant movie role in the 2020 romantic comedy The Stand In, though she has since had cameo roles in 2021's holiday movie A Castle for Christmas and in the horror blockbuster Smile 2 in 2024.
Barrymore also had a vocal cameo in 2022's Scream as a call-back to her memorable on-screen kill in the 1996 original. She hinted back in 2023 that a reunion with Sandler could convince her to return to acting. "As soon as you talk about Adam Sandler, I'm like, 'Oh, well maybe. Sure," she admitted on The Drew Barrymore Show in January 2023.
Death Becomes Her is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Death Becomes Her Release Date July 31, 1992 Runtime 104 Minutes Director Robert Zemeckis Writers Martin Donovan, David Koepp Main Genre Comedy Movies
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