Wedding Crashers 2 might be in the cards with an updated idea from director David Dobkin. The original 2005 screwball comedy starred Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as friends and terminal bachelors who sneak into strangers' nuptials to meet women. Wedding Crashers was a major box office success that left fans itching for a sequel.
Wedding Crashers' raunchy R-rated material was grounded by the emotional truth of its central relationships, which a mega-talented cast that included Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, and Jane Seymour made believable. A cameo from Will Ferrell, an early-career Bradley Cooper, and a bizarre extended family added an absurd element that made the movie a classic. Attempts at a Wedding Crashers sequel have been made, but none have panned out. Some consider The Internship an unofficial Wedding Crashers sequel because it reunited Wilson and Vaughn in lead roles, although they played different characters. Director David Dobkin said in 2014 that he cooked up a plot with Wilson and Vaughn that introduced Daniel Craig as a competing crasher, but nothing came of the idea.
15 years after the success of Wedding Crashers, Vaughn discussed the potential for a sequel with CinemaBlend's ReelBlend podcast. The theoretical project is currently being referred to as Crashers. Vaughn says that previous attempts at sequels to Wedding Crashers and other box office comedies felt motivated by the wrong reasons. Fortunately, it seems Dobkin has an updated concept that could be reason enough to crash another wedding:
David Dobkin had a really good idea that's contemporary. I never went and made a sequel to a lot of these films at the time because it felt like we were just chasing a success. But what I like about where Crashers could potentially be at is there’s something that is of this moment that feels really good…a lot of these comedies, even something like Wedding Crashers, you're sort of investigating things that I think are real in our lives, but the comedy is an overcommitment to the absurd.
Despite having starred in plenty of successful movies ripe for revisitation, Vaughn has generally been hesitant to reprise his comedic roles. Vaughn has instead pursued dramatic projects of late with parts in Hacksaw Ridge and True Detective season 2, the latter of which reunited Vaughn with Wedding Crashers co-star Rachel McAdams. Vaughn doubts the likelihood that a sequel can recreate the magic of a comedy, so much of which is dependent on the unique chemistry between its actors and the particular timing of the script.
A rote greatest-hits style revisitation certainly wouldn't play well in 2020. While the 15-year-old comedy still holds up today, Wedding Crashers is bound to come off as dated over a decade later. A script seeking to replicate the formula that made the first movie funny would be a bad idea any year. Dobkin and Vaughn were wise to steer clear of a watered-down follow-up that wouldn't ring true with audiences. Hopefully, their excitement about updating the material for a new era will finally result in Wedding Crashers 2.
Source: CinemaBlend