Meg Ryan will soon appear back on the big screen in her first romantic comedy in almost 15 years when “What Happens Later” hits theaters in October.
The poster for the 61-year-old actress’ new movie alongside actor David Duchovny was released on Tuesday, showing the two stars sitting on a bench with snow falling down between them, Daily Mail reported. The message on the poster read, “They Missed Their Connection.” The movie is about Willa and Bill, who “are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight,” a description on IMDb read.
“Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to — and annoyed by — one another as they did decades earlier,” the film’s synopsis added. “But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.”
"What Happens Later" follows two old flames who, after bumping into each other when their flights get snowed in, spend the night in an airport reliving the past. In addition to her lead role, Meg Ryan served as director and co-writer. https://t.co/i8YgRdmKCN
— Variety (@Variety) August 30, 2023
The last rom-com Ryan was involved in was “Serious Moonlight” in 2009 — and the last rom-com of hers to generate attention came in 2001 when she starred with actor Hugh Jackman in “Kate & Leopold.”
Ryan is not only starring in the film, but directing it as well. It is based off the book “Shooting Star” by playwright Steven Dietz. Ryan and Dietz co-wrote the film with novelist Kirk Lynn, the Daily Mail noted.
The last film the “Sleepless in Seattle” star directed was the 2015 American drama, “Ithaca,” which she also appeared in alongside Tom Hanks and Jack Quaid.
Ryan, who was a staple of the genre throughout the 90s with movies like “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” and “You’ve Got Mail,” compared her new movie to that of something from the 1940s.
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“It has a relationship to movies from the ’40s, like ‘Bringing Up Baby,’ in terms of the banter and the rhythm of things and a lot of that era of filmmaking,” the actress told Entertainment Weekly.
“Nora Ephron used to say about rom-coms that they were really a secretly incredible delivery system to comment on the times, and we do that in this movie,” she added.
“What Happens Later” will hit theaters October 13.