Todd Phillips Halfway Through Another HANGOVER

The wolf pack is just about ready to get a little bigger.  According to Entertainment Weekly, writer/director Todd Phillips is halfway done with writing a follow-up to the highly successful THE HANGOVER, which has, so far, made over $459 million worldwide.  That includes $277 million domestic, making it the highest grossing R-rated comedy in history.

Phillips explains to EW that plans for a sequel were already being bandied about while production on the first film was underway.

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.

While plot points for the sequel are being kept close to Phillips’ chest, he does say the film, tentatively titled THE HANGOVER 2, will reunite the trio of Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, and Ed Helms.  Phillips also says the new film won’t simply revisit the bachelor-party-gone-horribly-wrong scenario.

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.

Phillips is currently shooting DUE DATE with Robert Downey Jr. Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx, and Michelle Monaghan.

What do you think?  Does the thought of a sequel to THE HANGOVER entice you?  Are you interested to see what craziness Phil, Alan, and Stu can get themselves into next?  Why do they call them roofies?  Shoot us an email below with your thoughts.