Meyers’ follow up was an updating of the classic Spencer Tracy film Father of the Bride, which she was invited to write by Steve Martin and crafted with him in mind. “It’s a gift because you know you’re writing for Steve Martin so you can be funny and you can be loose and you can do all these twists and turns in the scene,” she said.
Her second adaptation, The Parent Trap, was based on a personal favourite: “I loved The Parent Trap, loved it, loved it, loved it. It’s a very girl empowering movie because the children, the daughters, the two girls make everything happen, they have totally control of the destiny of their family.”
In the years that have followed, Meyers has taken on the multiple tasks of writing, producing and directing on the majority of her films. Motivated to take control to protect her screenplays, she said: “The writing is really where it all happens. And then the directing I find is just executing the writing. That’s really why I became a director, honestly it really started out of just protecting the screenplay.”
But her writing style hasn’t changed since getting behind the camera too. “I had been very hands on as a producer…I was always there in front of the monitor. So it wasn’t like my first time seeing my words come to life.”