Todd Phillips Gives Hangover 2 Update

Call it whatever want, word-of-mouth, lack of competition, it being damn funny, etc. but The Hangover was a commercial smash this past summer. We’re talking $280 million domestic haul kind of money here. Indeed, it made more cash stateside than even the highest estimates of the studio’s very own Terminator: Salvation. Not surprisingly, Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures are foaming at the mouth towards a sequel.

While filming his next comedy Due Date with Robert Downey Junior and Hangover alum Zack Galifianakis (or “that funny looking bearded guy” as he’ll forever be known hence forth), writer/director Todd Phillips gave an update to Entertainment Weekly. He’s halfway through the script, but all details are being kept under lock and key.

As he clarifies to the publication:

"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 don’t disagree with that. But, how should I put this, I don’t know if audiences are flock to see The Hangover 2 like they did for the first film this past summer. It was a total discovery in June. That month was void of mega-tentpoles for the most part (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen didn’t hit screens until the very end).

I also can’t help but think it’s going to be a rehash of the first film despite Phillips’ claims to the contrary. Are people going to go for "Here we go again!" with these characters? Let’s just hope they don’t resort to having Mike Tyson showing up in the sequel.