The Hangover 3?
This is what a $200M opening weekend at the box office will do:
‘Hangover II’ Co-Writer in Early Talks for Third Installment
With Hangover II smashing records this weekend and grossing over $200 million worldwide, Warner Bros. is beginning to get the creative gang together for the third part.
Craig Mazin, who co-wrote the Bangkok-set sequel, is in early talks to come back to write the new script for whose story details are being kept secret.
$200 Million Opening Weekend Has Warner Bros Thinking Third ‘Hangover’:
In a move that seems to be about commerce as much as comedy, Warner Bros has started the process on a third installment of The Hangover. Though my sources say there are no deals and that the players involved won’t really get cracking on it for months, it seems likely that Craig Mazin will be writing the three-quel. Reports are surfacing based on an interview he did to promote the film; others involved have hinted at the third pic as well. While Mazin doesn’t have a deal, after Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures just announced that the comedy crossed the $200 million worldwide mark and became the fastest comedy to surpass that number, developing the third film seems inevitable. The picture also blew past the Memorial Day weekend record for an R rated film.
I remember after the first season of the TV series “24” thinking it would be really difficult to pull off another year let alone several ones. What would the lead-in V.O. be?
Season 1: “My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.”
Season 2: “My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the second longest day of my life.”
Season 3: “My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the third longest day of my life.”
Evidently I was wrong. And evidently here we go again.
The Hangover: The worst bachelor party experience ever.
The Hangover 2: An even worse bachelor party experience.
The Hangover 3: No, seriously, this is the absolute worst bachelor party experience in the history of humankind.
Congrats to screenwriter Craig Mazin. And good luck taking the Hangover franchise where no hangovers have gone before.