Overview
- Tatum told Variety he doesn’t think a third film will happen, saying producer overhead would rival or exceed the movie’s budget and keeps toppling the project.
- He said he, Jonah Hill, and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller agreed to reduce their producer fees to try to make the sequel viable.
- Tatum singled out Neal H. Moritz’s “huge” producer fee as the remaining obstacle and said that is “what’s killing it.”
- He described the existing script as the best he has read for him and Hill, underscoring that the holdup is financial rather than creative.
- There is no release plan, even though the first two films were box office hits and past sequel ideas, including a Men in Black crossover, were discussed then shelved.