Remember What Women Want? In instance the past 17 years have been active and you require a refresher on the 2000 Nancy Meyers romcom, right here’s the offer: Mel Gibson plays a sexist, narcissistic advertising exec that is so puzzled by the contrary sex that it takes a fanatic mishap permitting him to check out ladies’s minds before he can register them as fellow human beings deserving of a standard level of respect.
He after that uses that power to market points to them! Somewhere along the road, he additionally bonds with his adolescent child and also loves his boss, played by Helen Hunt, that he’s at first so intimidated by that he uses his mind-reading capabilities to take her ideas as well as get her fired.
She, somehow, decides to forget this indiscretion and also they end up together.
It’s not, as Jezebel mentions, a flick that stands up specifically well in the year 2017. A gender-flipped version starring Taraji P. Henson? Since’s more like it. According to Deadline, the aptly-titled What Men Want will certainly star Henson as «a women sports agent that has actually been frequently boxed out by her male colleagues.
When she gets the power to listen to males’s ideas, she is able to move the standard to her benefit as she races to authorize the NBA’s following superstar.»
The film is readied to be released on January 11, 2019, which implies we have just a little over a year to wait to obtain our sneak peek at the rich indoor lives of males. Oh, and also to view Henson use her psychic capabilities to, with any luck, overturn several of the Hollywood sex stereotypes the initial film was packed with once and for all.