17-06-2025
Lionsgate lights up a fresh Harold & Kumar sequel
They've gone to White Castle, escaped Gitmo, and celebrated a very 3-D Christmas. Now, Harold & Kumar are making what many long-dormant franchises have made before: A legacy sequel. Earlier today, The Hollywood Reporter announced that a fourth Harold & Kumar is in the works, with stars John Cho and Kal Penn expected to return. No details about the movie's plot have yet been made public. However, going off legacy sequel tropes, we're going to assume this new movie is about a younger generation of stoners looking for directions to White Castle, and turning to the sage wisdom of Harold and Kumar for advice.
Series creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg will direct the film and have plenty of experience in the legacy sequel game. In addition to creating Harold & Kumar, they created Cobra Kai, with Josh Heald, who will join them as a producer on the new film. 'We're fired up to bring Harold and Kumar back in a return to the unapologetically R-rated, smoke-filled chaos that started it all,' Hurwitz and Schlossberg said in a statement. 'It's high time they puff and pass their wisdom onto a new generation. Just don't tell their kids.'
The last Harold & Kumar movie, A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas, came out in November 2011. By then, Penn had been working for the Obama administration and had resigned from the White House to make the film. After its completion, he returned to the Obama fold, where he co-chaired the President's successful re-election campaign. In 2019, he starred in the NBC sitcom Sunnyside. Meanwhile, Cho kept acting and appeared as Sulu in the Star Trek films and as the lead of Netflix's short-lived Cowboy Bebop adaptation.
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