“Wedding Crashers” seems like it was made at the exact perfect time. Starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, at the height of their comedic fame, as well as featuring Rachel McAdams, Bradley Cooper, Isla Fisher, and Christopher Walken, director David Dobkin’s film about immature adults using weddings to get laid became an instant hit in 2005 and has become a modern classic of the genre. However, unlike some of the other popular comedies of the era, “Wedding Crashers” never had a sequel or spin-off. But that could be changing.
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Speaking to Collider, Dobkin explained why he was never interested in going back to explore a “Wedding Crashers” sequel previously but why he is exploring the idea now.
“Everybody keeps hitting me up about a ‘Wedding Crashers’ sequel,” said Dobkin. “We don’t have a script that we’re there with yet. For many, many years every year I got offered to do the sequel, there were some very big deals on the table. And none of us wanted to do a retread of the same movie again. Anything within those first years that we talked about was the same movie, and we were like, ‘Why?’ Financially I probably shouldn’t have done that, but I did [laughs]. And Vince and Owen didn’t want to do it either.”
But as they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or something like that. Anyway, 15 years after the release of the film, Dobkin is opening up to the idea of going back to the “Wedding Crashers” well. Not because he needs the money, but because there might actually be a story there that he wants to tell.
“10 years later, when I was asked again and I hung up the phone after saying no, I thought about it and I’m like, ‘Well I’d be curious what it’d be like for guys in their late 40s who end up being single again and have to go back out in the world,” he explained. “What a weird, difficult, challenging story that is.’ And as long as there’s a real story in the middle of it, to me, it can be a movie.”
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He added, “So we’ll see. We started noodling on it a while ago. We’re unclear yet. Vince has to read it and Owen has to read it. I saw something that seemed like a good start. But there’s no rush to go make that movie.”
As mentioned above, “Wedding Crashers” is one of the most popular films of the 2000s, thanks to the popularity of Wilson and Vaughn, as well as the resurgence of the R-rated comedy genre. Even today, “Wedding Crashers” is regularly shown on cable and is often quoted by people who have a fondness for the film.
And though the idea of a film where men con women into sex during a vulnerable time seems a bit, uh, problematic, perhaps that’s reason enough to re-evaluate the context of the first film in a new feature? If for nothing else, let’s have more of Will Ferrell’s Chazz character.
