(L to R) Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson in ‘Meet the Dad and mom’. Picture: Common Footage.
Preview:
- Owen Wilson is returning for the brand new ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ film.
- Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner shall be again.
- John Hamburg is writing the script and directing.
Seems like a whole lot of the outdated ‘Dad and mom’ gang is getting again collectively.
Following earlier information that Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are amongst these returning for a fourth ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ film, The Hollywood Reporter brings phrase that Owen Wilson shall be again.
John Hamburg, who co-wrote all three prior movies, wrote the screenplay for the brand new characteristic and is ready to direct.
“First comes love. Then comes the interrogation.”
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Wilson performs Kevin Rawley, the laidback rival of Stiller’s character (who turns into much less in order the story goes on).
We don’t know a lot in regards to the new film’s plotline to date, however it’ll reportedly see the son of Stiller’s Greg getting engaged to a headstrong lady (with Ariana Grande) taking part in the fiancée.
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What’s the story of the ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ films?
(L to R) Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in ‘Meet the Dad and mom’. Picture: Common Footage.
The thought for the ‘Dad and mom’ franchise really originated years earlier than Ben Stiller unintentionally knocked an urn filled with ashes from a mantle or milking a cat was ever mentioned.
Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke created and co-wrote an unbiased movie, additionally titled ‘Meet the Dad and mom,’ again in 1992.
Glienna directed, wrote two authentic songs, and starred as protagonist Greg: a Chicago promoting agent who travels together with his fiancée Pam Burns to satisfy her mother and father, Irv and Kay, over a weekend however units off a sequence of accidents and causes the household to disintegrate.
After Pam’s sister Fay commits suicide, framing Greg within the course of, Irv makes an attempt to shoot him however unintentionally kills Kay and Pam earlier than dying of a coronary heart assault. So… sure, a bit of darker even than what adopted.
Sensing some potential (albeit with much less homicide/suicide), Common purchased the rights to the indie film. The studio employed screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to broaden the script and tone down a few of the sharper edges, which led to what all of us now know as ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ in 2000.
Jay Roach directed that movie, with Hamburg re-writing the script. It stars Stiller as Gaylord “Greg” Focker, a male nurse who’s seeking to suggest to his girlfriend, Pam (Polo). Upon studying that Pam’s sister’s fiancé sought her father’s permission to marry, Greg sees a chance after they journey to her mother and father for the marriage.
Because it seems, Pam’s father is the strict, authoritative Jack Byrnes (De Niro), who claims to have been a florist in his profession however is in reality a retired CIA counterintelligence officer. And never fairly as retired as he claims. Chaos ensues, together with the aforementioned urn destruction, accidents and unhealthy habits from Jack’s beloved cat Mr. Jinx.
(L to R) Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro in ‘Little Fockers’. Picture: Common Footage.
Danner performed Dina, Jack’s spouse who is way much less stress-inducing than him, however nonetheless much less easygoing than Greg’s household. But regardless of all of the insanity, Greg does handle to persuade Jack he’s worthy of Pam and finally ends up engaged.
That movie was a crucial and industrial success, grossing $166.2 million domestically and a complete of $330.4 million worldwide.
A sequel was greenlit, with Roach returning to direct and Herzfeld and Hamburg as soon as extra writing. In 2004’s ‘Meet the Fockers,’ Greg and Pam determine to have Jack and Dina meet his mother and father.
The eccentric, fun-loving and free-spirited couple are, Bernie Focker (Dustin Hoffman), a lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-dad, and Roz (Barbra Streisand), a intercourse therapist for aged {couples}. Whereas Dina bonds with the Fockers, cracks kind between Jack and the Fockers as a consequence of their contrasting personalities and backgrounds.
There’s additionally the small matter of Greg doubtlessly having fathered a baby as a young person with the Focker household house-keeping and renewed stress with Jack. But all of it works out fortunately and Greg and Pam marry on the finish.
‘Meet the Fockers’ was a fair larger hit, incomes greater than $279 million domestically and greater than $522 million worldwide.
The world needed to wait till 2010 for the third entry, ‘Little Fockers,’ which noticed Hamburg again writing, this time alongside Larry Stuckey. Paul Weitz took over directing chores.
“Children convey everybody nearer, proper?”
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‘Little Fockers,’ which finds Greg and Pam getting ready to have a good time the fifth birthday of their twins Samantha and Henry.
Nonetheless, issues appear to go awry for Greg when his in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, go to them, and Jack declares he’s searching for his successor as the top of the Byrnes household. Jack’s household has been hit by his daughter’s (Pam’s sister) divorce and extra disruption, plus some well being points.
But extra insanity follows, although it ends nicely for each males, even when Greg’s mother and father announce they’re shifting to Chicago to be nearer to him and Pam.
This third movie was critically panned and never as profitable because the earlier two entries, ending up with a worldwide whole of $310.7 million.
The place else can we see Owen Wilson?
Owen Wilson in ‘Stick,’ premiering June 4, 2025 on Apple TV+. Picture: Apple TV+.
Wilson hasn’t been seen on the massive display screen since 2023’s ‘Haunted Mansion’, however he’s had work on TV, showing as Morbius in Marvel’s ‘Loki’ and is at present to be discovered taking part in a former golf champion mentoring a gifted new younger participant on Apple TV+ sequence ‘Stick’.
Upcoming film work consists of medical transport thriller ‘Runner’ and Jeremy Garelick’s new comedy ‘Rolling Loud’, a couple of father who takes his son to a wild hip-hop competition.
When will the brand new ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ film hit theaters?
(L to R) Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in ‘Meet the Dad and mom’. Picture: Common Footage.
Because the particulars are actually beginning to come collectively, Common is assured sufficient to plant a flag for this one: the brand new film shall be out on November twenty fifth, 2026.
And Paramount Footage has introduced it’s going to co-produce the film and distribute it exterior the U.S.
(L to R) Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro in ‘Little Fockers’. Picture: Common Footage.