Cameron Diaz To Star In ‘Troop Beverly Hills’ Sequel For TriStar Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz has found a new starring vehicle in a sequel to the ’80s cult comedy Troop Beverly Hills in development at TriStar Pictures, Deadline has learned.

Plot details are under wraps. Clea DuVall is set to direct from her own script, reuniting with the studio after helming their critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ rom-com Happiest Season starring Kristen Stewart.

Laurence Mark (The Greatest Showman, Dreamgirls) will produce alongside Diaz and her business partner, Katherine Power, with whom she co-founded the organic wine brand Avaline.

Diaz reenters business with Sony after starring in their Charlie’s Angels reboot of 2000 that grossed over $200M worldwide, their beloved rom-com The Holiday which grossed over $200MWW, and their R-rated comedy Bad Teacher, which did the same.

Released by Columbia Pictures in 1989, Troop Beverly Hills was based on events in the life of writer-producer Ava Fries, who had producer and story-by credit on the original. A star vehicle for Shelley Long at the height of her post-Cheers film run, the comedy had her playing a pampered Beverly Hills housewife trying to prove to her daughter that she can rough it as a Wilderness Girls leader.

Jeff Kanew directed from a script by Pamela Norris and Margaret Oberman, with Weintraub Entertainment producing.

After more than a decade away from acting, Diaz returned last year with the aptly titled Back in Action, a hit action-comedy where she starred opposite Jamie Foxx. Earning 46.8 million views in its first three days, in the biggest opening for an English-language film on Netflix since The Adam Project three years prior, the film did the biggest streaming numbers of any on the platform in the first half of 2025 and currently sits as the streamer’s 7th most-popular film of all time.

Diaz will next be seen in Jonah Hill’s Apple dark comedy Outcome, out April 10, and reprising her role as Princess Fiona in Shrek 5, out December 23. Upcoming, she’ll also return to Netflix with Bad Day, an action-comedy from Jury Duty‘s Jake Szymanski. Most recently at work on an untitled rom-com for Amazon MGM where she stars opposite Stephen Merchant, she is repped by LBI Entertainment.

DuVall’s Happiest Season earned the number one spot on Hulu and became the most-watched original film on the platform in its 2020 opening weekend after being licensed to the streamer by Sony. Previously, she co-created and starred in Fox’s animated series HouseBroken, wrote, directed and exec produced the Sundance dramedy The Intervention, and directed on Peacock’s Poker Face.

As an actor, DuVall is also well known for roles in Veep, The Handmaid’s Tale, The First Lady, American Horror Story, Argo, and much more. She is repped by UTA and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.