(L to R) Kal Penn and John Cho in ‘Harold & Kumar Go to White Citadel’. Photograph: New Line Cinema .
Preview:
- A fourth ‘Harold & Kumar’ film is in improvement.
- Stars Kai Penn and John Cho are more likely to return.
- ‘Cobra Kai’ trio Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald are writing the script.
Again in 2004, ‘Harold & Kumar Go to White Citadel’, a seemingly innocuous stoner comedy, helped launch a bunch of careers because it gave attention-grabbing roles to stars John Cho and Kai Penn and likewise launched the comedy writing stylings of Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
It appears someway becoming then, that, 21 years and two sequels later, the staff is getting again collectively for a fourth entry.
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The Hollywood Reporter brings phrase that Hurwitz and Schlossberg alongside writing accomplice Josh Heald, are returning for the brand new film, whereas Cho and Penn –– albeit with out signed offers but –– are anticipated to reprise their roles.
Right here’s what Hurwitz and Schlossberg stated concerning the new improvement:
“We’re fired as much as deliver Harold and Kumar again in a return to the unapologetically R-rated, smoke-filled chaos that began all of it. It’s excessive time they puff and move their knowledge onto a brand new era. Simply don’t inform their youngsters.”
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What was the story of ‘Harold & Kumar go to White Citadel’?
(L to R) John Cho and Kal Penn in ‘Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay’. Photograph: Warner Bros. Photos.
Within the authentic film, nerdy accountant Harold (Cho) and his irrepressible pot-loving buddy, Kumar (Penn), get stoned watching tv and discover themselves totally bewitched by a industrial for White Citadel.
Satisfied there should be one close by, the 2 set out on a late-night odyssey that takes them deep into New Jersey.
Someway, the boys handle to run afoul of rednecks, cops and even a car-stealing Neil Patrick Harris (taking part in a crazed model of himself) earlier than getting wherever close to their beloved sliders.
That authentic movie, directed by Danny Leiner (‘Dude, The place’s My Automotive?’) was successful –– made for $9 million, it earned greater than $23 million worldwide.
A 2008 sequel, ‘Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay’, adopted, which noticed our heroes mistaken for terrorists and thrown into the titular jail. They escape and return to the US, the place they proceed to flee throughout the nation with federal brokers in scorching pursuit.
(L to R) John Cho and Kal Penn in ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’. Photograph: Warner Bros. Photos.
Hurwitz and Schlossberg stepped as much as direct in addition to write, and the film, made this time for $12 million, nonetheless introduced in audiences, taking dwelling $43 million globally.
Lastly, ‘A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas’ arrived in 2011, with the duo inflicting a vacation fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree. Hurwitz and Schlossberg have been the writers as soon as extra, with Todd Strauss-Schulson (‘Isn’t It Romantic’) within the director’s chair.
Because the motion pictures, Schlossberg and Hurwitz, alongside writing/producing accomplice Heald (who the duo solid in a tiny cameo for ‘Guantanamo Bay’) have gone on to be recognized for profitable Netflix collection ‘Cobra Kai’, which continues the ‘Karate Child’ motion pictures’ story years later.
The present, which lately wrapped up its sixth and closing season, seems to be set to launch spin-offs, however the primary trio are centered on this film for now.
There isn’t any phrase on a narrative for the brand new film, however that point out of youngsters within the author/administrators’ assertion hints that we’ll see the duo settled into home life with households and inflicting chaos with the following era.
When will the brand new ‘Harold & Kumar’ film be on screens?
With the film in very early improvement, and no official distributor but –– although Lionsgate owns Mandate, the manufacturing firm behind this newest entry, so it’s not arduous to think about the corporate taking it –– there’s no official phrase on a launch date but.
(L to R) John Cho and Kal Penn in ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’. Photograph: Warner Bros. Photos.