If you’d recall, talks of THE HANGOVER 2 already started before The Hangover was even released this past summer, the studio acted simply on how well it was received at test screenings. The hilarious movie about three guys who can’t remember what happened the night before in Vegas and lost their groom friend went on to become the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time banking $277 Million domestically. The sequel hasn’t been greenlit yet and thank God for people like Zach Galifianakis who’s not hasty about jumping in for second round if the script is not right. Speaking of which, director Todd Phillips recently talked, via EW, to give the world updates on the development of THE HANGOVER 2…
He revealed that he’s midway through working on the script for THE HANGOVER 2 but he’s keeping the plot secret for now. He wants to reunite Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis but he’ll possibly place them somewhere else other than Vegas
“You always have those days when you say, ‘If we did another one, wouldn’t it be funny if…?’ ”
“Then once the movie tested so well, Warner Bros. came to me even before it was released and said, ‘Let’s do another one.’ “
“What people loved about The Hangover was not Las Vegas or the bachelor party but these three characters,”
“I think you can take those characters and put them in other situations, and you don’t need the sell of Vegas and a bachelor party and all that other stuff.”
I disagree, I think Vegas played a huge part of why The Hangover was so damn successful, it helped sell the movie. Cooper, Galifianakis, and Helms were not unknowns but they weren’t George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr.
Part of the attraction was some of the audition can relate to having had similar experiences in Sin City before. The hangover part, I mean, not necessarily the chicken, the tiger, and getting smacked in the face by Mike Tyson.
There’s just something about Vegas, it wouldn’t have been as fun if The Hangover was set in New Mexico.
Besides, how many times can the same three guys forget what happened the night before again and still be funny? The jokes will get old.
They’ve already set the release date for THE HANGOVER 2 on May 26th, 2011
You’re right… the jokes can get old. But I think what sold the movie was the crazy crap they couldn’t remember they did. I don’t think it was the Vegas surrounding. It could have been New York or Los Angeles or Miami… but we just simply laughed our ass off every single time we found out something new and outrageous they had done. It was just funny… not only that they were so plastered that they couldn’t remember and had to back track, but the actual things they did simply got more and more outrageous as the film went along. It was fabulous. Hope they can capture lightening a second time.
That’s what I’m worried about,… comedy sequels usually don’t work.. they usually can’t capture the lightning the second time around.