How Richard Curtis Still Influenced Hulu's "Four Weddings and Funerals"

Mindy Kaling co-created Hulu's Four weddings and a funeral adaptation with Matt Warburton. Tracey Wigfield, Kaling's Mindy Project executive producer, is his showrunner for the Hulu series. Together, they develop their own interpretation of the clbadic romantic comedy, in which a group of friends discovers love by attending each other's weddings, as well as the bitter-sweet funeral that surprises them all.

Wigfield was on a Four weddings and a funeral panel for the badociation of TV critics with Kaling. Wigfield shared more information Four weddings and a funeral Screenwriter Richard Curtis 'contributions to the series, a tribute to Richard Curtis' other films and the chances of a second season. Four weddings and a funeral now play on Hulu.

Richard Curtis has "Four Weddings and a Funeral" an additional song

Music is vital in Richard Curtis's films. Everyone remembers "Both Sides Now" in Love, actually, "No sun" in Notting Hilland "but not for me" in the original Four weddings and a funeral. So when Curtis suggested a song for the show, they listened.

"He launched a song for the end of the second episode, and our music budget was completely out of date," said Wigfield. "We were like, but Richard started, and they're like," Alright, let's do the check. "

"Four Weddings and a Funeral" pays tribute to all Richard Curtis films

Four weddings and a funeral was the one that started everything, but in the last 25 years there have been many more clbadics. If you're a fan, you'll probably notice tributes to Love actually, Notting Hill and more at Hulu Four weddings and a funeral.

"We are all big fans of Richard Curtis' gun and we hope with our show that it will be an opportunity to pay tribute to some of those times that you love so much," Wigfield said. "We have later in the seasons a wink at Hugh Grant walking in Notting Hill in Notting Hill and small lines and pieces of scenery and stuff that we just wanted to infuse into our show and blatantly tear ourselves away from the man. "

"Will they / will not they?" Will be solved at the end of "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

Hulu & # 39; s Four weddings and a funeral is a series of 10 episodes. It means everything will be solved by the end. There are not 10 seasons to extend it.

"There is something really gratifying and fun to be able to tell love stories that showcase everything," said Wigfield. "When we wrote about The Mindy project or on other shows I've written about, you had to kind of slow down and say, "Well, if they kiss in season 1, they can do it." to meet at the end of season 2. "But we did not have to do it. do this. You just do all the movements. They are all available for you. "

"Four weddings and a funeral" gives his best gay friend his own romance

The best gay friend is a popular romantic comedy, from Rupert Everett in the wedding of my best friend to Nico Santos in Crazy Rich Asians. Four weddings and a funeral even had a gay couple, but the Hulu show will make his gay romance more than just a comic relief.

"Nathan Stewart-Jarrett plays Ainsley's badistant, and it looks like you've been seen many times as a comedian of romantics: that homobadual badistant who exists just to joke and ask questions about the love life of your main daughter, "Wigfield told me. "Slowly, we have this relationship that is built between him and another character, and their love story becomes one of the most central to the end of the series. So it was a way for us to be able to do something that would have been a little different from the movie. "

British staff at "Four Weddings and a Funeral" had to correct the Americans

Kaling, Wigfield and Warburton moved to London to work on Four Weddings and a Funeral. However, they were still out of control and had been entrusted to their local staff to revise the British slang.

"We had quite a few British writers," said Wigfield. "Sometimes it was so annoying because we wrote a joke or something that contained something, and they thought," Oh, we do not say that word. "It's like everything is fine, well now the joke is not funny, but it also gave the show the authenticity you absolutely needed."

Will there be four more marriages and another funeral?

There has never been a sequel to the film Four weddings and a funeral. On television, it is more expected that this will continue. The first season will feature the four weddings and funerals. Wigfield, Kaling, and Warburton intended to celebrate it.

"We really wrote it as a complete story," said Wigfield. "Of course, everything can be just about anything. You can continue to tell parts of the story in a new story, of course, but we really wrote this story to make ten full and satisfying television episodes. "