“Wedding Crashers 2” comedy in development at New Line

PanARMENIAN.Net - New Line is in early development of a sequel to its 2005 hit “Wedding Crashers”, and has tapped the “Fist Fight” team of Evan Susser and Van Robichaux to write the script, Variety said.

Isla Fisher — who appeared in the original — revealed that New Line was developing the sequel during a Nov. 18 interview on the “Today” show while she was discussing her role in Tom Ford’s drama “Nocturnal Animals.”

Fisher said Vince Vaughn told her at a recent party that the sequel was in the works but had no other details. The original, which grossed $285 million worldwide on a $40 million budget, centered on Vaughn and Owen Wilson playing divorce mediators crashing weddings to meet women and concluded with Vaughn’s character marrying Fisher’s character.

New Line hasn’t made deals for the sequel with stars Vaughn, Wilson, Fisher Rachel McAdams, Bradley Cooper or Will Ferrell, nor with director David Dobkin.

Dobkin said in a post on the Quora web site in 2014 that he had discussed a sequel with Vaughn and Wilson and the trio had come up with a version that would have starred Daniel Craig:

“Wedding Crashers came out at a time when people weren’t doing lots of sequels. We did come up with a great take. Vince, Owen and myself sat around at Owen’s house one day and broke the story. It was really really funny. We wanted Daniel Craig to be the ultimate wedding crasher, with his sexy body and his speedo, and the two guys would be incredibly threatened by him. He was like the next generation terminator of wedding crashing.”

New Line is releasing “Fist Fight,” starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day, on Feb. 17.

The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.