Play ball! A Dodgeball sequel is formally in the works — and Vince Vaughn has reportedly signed on to reprise the function of Peter La Fleur.
Deadline was first to report the information on Thursday, April 27, noting that the script will come from Jordan VanDina and is predicated on an concept from Vaughn, 53. The outlet confirmed that follow-up film is in early improvement at twentieth Century Studios.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story hit theaters in 2004 and starred Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Justin Long, Christine Taylor and extra comedic actors. In the unique, Peter (Vaughn) tries to save lots of his rundown Average Joe’s Gym from being purchased by White Goodman’s (Stiller) ultra-swanky Globo Gym.
Since he doesn’t have the funds to save lots of his facility, Peter enlists a few of his common gymgoers to compete in the Las Vegas dodgeball match and win its $50,000 grand prize.
Stephen Root, Alan Tudyk, Joel David Moore, Chris Williams, Missi Pyle, Gary Cole, Jason Bateman, William Shatner, Hank Azaria and the late Rip Torn additionally starred in the comedy.
Ahead of the sequel information, Stiller, 57, and his spouse, Taylor, 51, reunited with Vaughn and Long, 44, in June 2017 to advertise Omaze’s charity marketing campaign — and dressed up in their Dodgeball costumes.
In the clip, rivals Peter La Fleur and White Goodman took a number of jabs at one another earlier than asking followers to choose a aspect and join an opportunity to win real-life dodgeball recreation with the Zoolander star.
“It was really strange and fun. I didn’t know what it would be like, because I was away from it for so long and I never really thought there would be any reason to do the character again,” Stiller informed Entertainment Weekly at the time, revealing how the reunion transpired. “I called Vince up, and he immediately said, ‘I’m in, let’s do it, it’s for a good cause.’ Then we got Justin Long and Christine Taylor and Missi Pyle and everybody; it was really exciting for us all to get back together. So we got our Halloween costumes, and luckily it’s Spandex so it all still kind of fit.”
Five years later, Long teased that the solid may be getting again collectively for a function movie after he labored with Vaughn on 2022’s Christmas with the Campbells.
“Vince had been telling me that he has this great idea for a sequel. I don’t know if he had yet pitched it to Ben, but I kind of set up the pitch, I felt like I should facilitate the pitch,” the New Girl alum informed ComicBook.com in October 2022, explaining that he lately spoke with Stiller on his “Life Is Short” podcast about making a Dodgeball sequel.
Long informed the outlet: “Of course I would love to do it and I hope that it ends up happening, but I think Ben is a little — what he told me on that podcast was that he’s a little trepidatious about doing a sequel to something so beloved, something that people enjoy so much that.”
The Accepted actor famous that it may be “very risky” to do a second film when the first was so beloved.
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“You don’t wanna s—t on the original, you want something just as good. So, I think [Ben’s] a little wary of that, of trying to recreate something that was very specific to that time,” Long continued. “But I hope he comes around on it. Vince is a very convincing person, so I’m just hoping Vince can convince him with his idea. It’s a funny idea, I don’t wanna say what it is.”
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