A new 'Meet the Parents' movie is in the works with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. Original franchise stars De Niro, Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks to return for a new film for Universal Pictures. De Niro and Stiller are also among the film's producers, as is Jay Roach, who directed the first two movies.
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00:00A new Meet the Parents movie is in the works with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller.
00:05Original franchise stars De Niro, Stiller, Terry Polo, and Blythe Danner are in early
00:10talks to return for a new film for Universal Pictures. De Niro and Stiller are also among
00:15the film's producers, as is Jay Roach, who directed the first two movies. John Hamburg,
00:20who worked on the screenplay for the 2000 original and the two subsequent sequels,
00:24is writing the script. A director has not yet been announced.
00:28Meet the Parents focuses on a nurse, played by Stiller, who is having trouble getting accepted
00:32by his girlfriend's overbearing father, played by De Niro. The film surpassed $330 million at
00:38the global box office. The 2004 sequel, Meet the Fockers, was even bigger, collecting $522 million
00:45worldwide. Another film, Little Fockers, was released in 2010. During a 2022 interview with
00:51The Hollywood Reporter to promote his comedy Me Time, Hamburg was cagey when asked if another
00:55Meet the Parents sequel could happen. He said,
00:58I will refrain from discussing that question, but I love everybody involved,
01:02and we all are still in touch, and I think that's all I'm gonna say on that.
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