Last week, promo for a new film called Little Italy appeared online. Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts are involved, as are Andrea Martin and Danny Aiello. That’s already a head-scratcher of a cast, but people got really invested in figuring out what exactly this movie was, why it was, and what year it is supposed to be released.
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— grace (@GemOfAmara) May 11, 2018
what's. what's goin on here. pic.twitter.com/2aFar2y2U5
— bobby (@bobby) May 11, 2018
However, with some quick Googling and preserved pop-culture knowledge, it was soon discovered that this is some sort of Mystic Pizza follow-up, though people born after 1988 might not know about the Julia Roberts film. Little Italy is also directed by Donald Petrie, director of Miss Congeniality, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and… Mystic Pizza!
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Yes, yes it is. The film, which centers around a couple (Roberts and Christensen) navigating a romance “amidst a war between their families’ competing pizza restaurants,” might have gone unnoticed if the internet’s irony sensor hadn’t gone off, but now people are invested.
Okay, so in the 30 years since the events of Mystic Pizza, the company has franchised. They're now a booming business, with stock traded on Wall Street.
— It’s Keaton! (@EvilKeaton) May 12, 2018
They open a place in Little Italy, which makes Christiansons family mad that they're moving in on small businesses.
Little Italy is set to debut this year.