A script for the third installment of the household comedy collection was accomplished late final yr.
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The Toula Portokalos saga continues.
“My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony” author and star Nia Vardalos revealed on Tuesday that taking pictures for the third movie has lastly commenced in Athens.
The 59-year-old dropped the information on Instagram with a video, whereas additionally thanking her producers at Playtone, Gold Circle, HBO and Focus Options.
“A lot love and gratitude to you all in your help as we waited to movie. Greece child. Greece,” she captioned her clip.
She additionally dropped a bombshell within the video, formally saying that she’ll be directing the function.
The Canada native recorded the video from her crisp white resort room within the Mediterranean nation.
“We're in Greece filming ‘My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony 3’ and thanks for all the beautiful messages of simply ready,” Vardalos stated.
She famous that she was in her resort on the brink of shoot and even gave followers a fast snippet of the set.
The screenwriter divulged again in September that she lastly accomplished the script for the third installment of her hilarious household comedy collection.
The “My Life in Ruins” star posted a photograph of herself alongside her “My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony” co-stars Lainie Kazan, Louis Mandylor and Gia Carides.
The foursome gathered to honor their outdated good friend and castmate Michael Constantine, who died in August.
Vardalos stated that the upcoming threequel will honor and be devoted to Constantine.
“[Michael] had informed me he wouldn’t be capable to be part of us for the third movie and his want was that we go on. I wrote the screenplay to replicate Michael’s determination and can at all times treasure his final messages to me, hoping we had been filming quickly,” the “Larry Crowne” actress wrote. “We miss you Michael, thanks for bringing my phrases to life with such ardour and accuracy, you'll at all times be with us.”
“My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony” premiered in 2002 and adopted Toula (Vardalos), a 30-year-old Greek lady residing in Chicago who marries a non-Greek man (John Corbett) amid her household’s objections. A sequel was launched in 2016.
The comedy was a sleeper hit and earned an Oscar nomination for Greatest Unique Screenplay in 2003.
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