In case you haven’t had enough Sex and The City after all the on-set photos and perhaps-misleading plot leaks before the much-anticipated first film is even out, you can rest assured that it won’t be over after you’ve spent two hours in the theater watching it this spring. Producers are said to be so convinced that the movie will be a commercial success that they’re already planning a sequel. In fact they want to do four or five films!

Producers are so sure the movie version of the classic HBO show… is going to be a box office hit that they plan to exercise the sequel option in the contracts of stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kirstin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall. “They are hoping it will become a franchise,” an insider tells In Touch. “They would love to do four or five Sex and the City movies. Script ideas were even in the works before the writers’ strike.

[From In Touch, print edition, December 3, 2007]

Four or five Sex and the City movies? If this is true, maybe they’ll be derailed by the writer’s strike, although I hope it reaches an amicable conclusion soon so that more worthy entertainment is not affected.

I guess this isn’t surprising, considering how many successful film ideas get run into the ground with sequels. (Where is the Finding Nemo sequel? If they can do three Shreks there can be at least one more Nemo.)

It seems like the movie took so long to make that they should put it out and see what happens before jumping into a sequel. All of the stars except Kim Cattrall are in their early 40s, with Kim 51. Can they continue to play these characters convincingly for another 5-6 years? As long as the plotlines mature along with them, I suppose it’s possible and there definitely aren’t enough older women in current films. Still, you can’t help but think that the movies are going to decline over the years, getting older and more haggard as they cling to a shopaholic youth and carefree sexuality that wasn’t that appealing in the first place.

Here are pictures from the Sex and The City set, along with the younger versions of the characters who will appear in the film, thanks to PRPhotos.

Update: thanks to commentor na for letting us know that the picture below is of a group of girls that the aging Sex and The City ladies pass on the street who remind them of themselves. They aren’t supposed to be the younger versions of the characters.