Jay Roach and the Meet The Parents gang promised a topping great screenplay for the next edition, the franchise’s 4th, which recently cast Ariana Grande along with original cast and announced John Hamburg is directing.
“The script is really good,” said De Niro after a screening of the hit comedy where he famously flexed his comedy cops as Jack Byrnes, human lie detector and CIA dad hazing his daughter’s finance – played by Teri Polo and Ben Stiller. “I’m looking forward to it,” he said.
The audience sure did, yucking it up during a 25th anniversary screening and reunion Q&A at the Tribeca Festival Saturday.
Asked to spill a little about the upcoming film, Roach who directed the original and will produce, said, “You know, it’s always about the predicament. I fell in love with that script, the first film script … because imagining what it’s like when you care so much about winning the approval of someone, and you’re right away going to start screwing it up, and the harder you try the worse you’re going to make it. And I think that’s what John has come up with again, and that’s what always you need. That predicament is everything in a story. And I think in this one, John found a really great new predicament. I think everybody’s going to love squirming through it, just like this.”
Stiller said the timing felt right. “I think life informs everything that’s happened in the last, you know, 25 years, and it’s been a while since we did the last one. I think what like 15 years ago? So it’s kind of like great to look at it as a sort of like a new thing. But of course, there’s all these great memories and I feel like our connections are still there. When we get back together, it’s just like, it’s kind of like, all baked in there.
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