Out doing promotion for his new Netflix comedy “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” David Dobkin has spoken with Collider this week about a potential follow-up to the 2005 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson-led comedy “Wedding Crashers”.
Dobkin says he, Wilson and Vaughn have also turned down multiple offers from Warner Brothers on doing a sequel as there’s no rush to make the film because so many of the initial offers for it were simply re-treads:
“We don’t have a script that we’re there with yet. For many, many years every year I got offered to do the sequel, there were some very big deals on the table. And none of us wanted to do a retread of the same movie again. Anything within those first years that we talked about was the same movie, and we were like, ‘Why?’ Financially I probably shouldn’t have done that, but I did (laughs). And Vince and Owen didn’t want to do it either.”
Now that time has passed though, Dobkin says he’s found a story thread that would actually embrace the passage of time:
“Ten years later, when I was asked again and I hung up the phone after saying no, I thought about it and I’m like, ‘Well I’d be curious what it’d be like for guys in their late 40s who end up being single again and have to go back out in the world. What a weird, difficult, challenging story that is,’” Dobkin said. “And as long as there’s a real story in the middle of it, to me, it can be a movie.”
The 2005 film scored strong reviews from critics and grossed over $288 million worldwide on a $40 million budget, at the time helping revive the R-rated comedy genre.
