A "9 to 5" movie sequel with the original cast is moving forward, one of its stars Jane Fonda said Wednesday in a promotional event for another project.
Fonda, who addressed reporters regarding an HBO documentary based her life, touched on the sequel to the hit 1980 comedy to took on chauvinism, misogyny, and harassment in the work place long before the current #MeToo movement, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
The movie, where Fonda starred alongside Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman as their incorrigible boss, was the second highest grossing movie in 1980, pulling in more than $103 million at the box office, only behind "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," according to Box Office Mojo.
"Right now, Dolly, Lily and I are all intending to be in it," Fonda told the gathering about the project that is still in development with Rashida Jones and Pat Rosnick being brought on board earlier to write it, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fonda said that the theme the movie touched on 38 years ago are probably more relevant now, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
"I'm sorry to say the situation is worse today," Fonda said, according to the celebrity publication. "Today a lot of the work force is hired by an outside company. Who do you talk to if you have a problem?"
Entertainment Weekly said that Fonda and Tomlin have been costarring in the Netflix series "Grace and Frankie, which will return for its fifth season next year and all three have remained friends over the years.
"All these years we've talked about doing a sequel to '9 to 5' and it never made any real sense until just recently," Parton, the country music icon and actress, told ABC's "Nightline" in March, according to Entertainment Weekly, pointing to the #MeToo movement and push for equal pay for women in Hollywood.
"We decided that we are going to do another one. We are trying to get the script and all that, everyone is very interested and we've all agreed that we'd love to do it if it's right," Parton continued.
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