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Dry your tears, Carrie Bradshaw. Although the final episode of "Sex and the City" will air this Sunday, series writer, director and executive producer Michael Patrick King is penning the script for a bigscreen feature that would star the Manolo Blahnik-clad quartet.
HBO is in the process of making deals for stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall to reprise their roles in the pic, which King would direct.
There's no start date for the film, nor is a theatrical distributor attached. However, the cabler is exploring all options and could have a greenlighting game plan by the time King turns in his script, which is expected by May.
This would be the feature bow for King, who won an Emmy in 2002 for his direction of the episode "The Real Me."
While there are many bigscreen adaptations of old series, such as Sony's "Charlie's Angels" and Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming "Starsky & Hutch," few series make it to theaters with the original cast intact.
The notable exception is Paramount's "Star Trek" franchise. "The X-Files," which Rob Bowman directed in 1998 for 20th Century Fox, featured original stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Released five years after the hit series began, it grossed more than $130 million worldwide.
There have been other varied series, including "Police Squad." In development is 20th Century Fox's "The Simpsons."
Created by Darren Star in 1998, "Sex and the City" started as a serial that Candace Bushnell penned for the New York Observer.
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