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The Meet the parents franchise is back and expanding, with even more members of the Fockers family taking over the big screen.
My Weekly confirmed on Tuesday, December 10 that Robert De Niro, Ben StillerTerry Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks for another movie in development at Universal Pictures.
While the plot is currently under wraps, John Hamburg is set to return to screenwriting. (Hamburg co-wrote all three previous films: Meet the parents, meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.)
The director has not yet been announced, but Jane Rosenthal and De Niro will return to produce the film through and alongside Tribeca Productions Jay Roach, who directed the first two films and produced the previous three through Delirious Media.
Plot twist! Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor’s love story isn’t perfect, but it does seem to have a happy ending. Stiller and Taylor, who married in 2000 and starred in numerous projects together, announced their split in 2017. Two years later, they made waves at the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards as they smiled (…)
Stiller and John Lesher they are also set to produce through Red Hour Films. Executive Vice President of Manufacturing Development Matt Reilly and director of production development Jacqueline Garell they are supposed to oversee the project for the studio. (Period was the first to report it.)
The OG starred Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse traveling with his girlfriend Pam (Polo) to his sister’s wedding. While there, Greg meets Pam’s parents Jack (De Niro) and Dina (Danner) for the first time and hopes to gain their approval. before designing to Pam. To Greg’s dismay, his relationship with Jack gets off to a very awkward start.
Throughout the franchise, viewers meet Pam’s ex-boyfriend Kevin (Owen Wilson) and Greg’s parents, dad Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) and mom Roz (Barbra Streisand). (It’s unclear if he’ll return for another installment Meet the parents franchise.)
Critically acclaimed Meet the parents grossed over $330 million at the global box office, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film worldwide of 2000. Continued Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers had similar success, culminating in a total franchise gross of over $1.13 billion worldwide.
A period of personal growth. Christine Taylor has opened up about why she and husband Ben Stiller split – and revealed what brought them back together. “We got married very quickly after we met,” the 51-year-old Hey Dude alum explained during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday, March 7. “We knew everyone (…)
flight after the release of the first filmStiller reflected on the hurdles the franchise had to go through to keep the film from getting an R rating.
“Is it true that the Motion Picture Association would not allow the name Focker unless the filmmakers could prove that someone with that last name actually existed?” host Sean Evans Stiller asked during the Dec. 5 appearance Hot. Stiller replied, “Oh, I think that’s true, yes.”
Stiller explained that his last name in the film was too similar to a swear word. “Because it was PG-13, I guess. And they thought it was too close to f—er,” he said.
After Evans asked if they needed to provide a photocopy of someone’s driver’s license with their last name on it, Stiller replied, “I don’t understand how that works legally, honestly, but something like that has happened.”
