“Casting for Meet the Parents 4 is Well Underway, With Owen Wilson the Latest Star to Rejoin the Franchise with Ben Stiller, Robert de niro and teri polo in the upcoming Film. But Who was this the right time to revisit meet the parents? Stiller Explated After a”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
But WHY WAS THIS The RIGHT TIME TO REVISIT Meet The Parents? Stiller Explated After A Recent 25th Anniversary Screening of the Original Film at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.
“I THINK WHAT SPURRED THE IDEA WAS THAT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I’M The AGE THAT BOB [De Niro] WAS WHEN WE DID THE FIRST MOVIE, ”HE SAID.“ AND THERE WAS THIS SORT OF MIRROR TO The FIRST FILLM IN TERMS OF THAT THAT MY Kids Are Grown. And, yeah, that my kid, one of my kids, is think about intraducking his person to the family. ”
Stiller, de Niro and Polo, who reunited with Original Director Jay Roach, Who’s Set to Produce The Fourth Film, for a Q&A After the Meet The Parents Screening at Tribeca, Remoned Tightlipped About What Else to Expect, Despite Stiller Joking That HE COURCK
Neverthaless, The Hollywood Reporter have learned that one part of the upcoming films of the soon of the Son of Stiller and Polo’s Characters Getting Engaged to A Ball-Busting Woman (Grande) Who Sems All Wrong For Him.
As to whather grande will get stiller, de niro and co. Singing and Dancing, Stiller Joked that The Movie Wuld Be Titled Wicked 3but de niro Indicated that it was unlikely he’d be singing, given what happled on a previori film in the series.
In either the Second or Third Film, de niro recalled, “we tried to do a song or something that i was singing and [producing partner and Tribeca co-founder] Jane [Rosenthal] wasn’t happy with it. ” They Ended Up Cutting The Scene.
Still, de niro teased that the script for Meet The Parents 4 is “Really Good.”
“IT’s Exciting That We’re Going To Do It Again and Be Together,“ Stiller Said of Meet The Parents 4. “AND I THINK LIFE INFORMS Avery’s HAPPENED IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, AND IT’S BEEN A SINCE WE DID THE LAST ONE. THREAT MEMORIES, AND I FEEL LIKE OUR CONNESSIONS ARE STILL THERE WHEN WE GET BACK TOGETCHER.
De Niro Even Said He Tried to Get The Ball Rolling on a Four Film WHEN WERE WORKING ON THIRD MOVIE, Little Fockerswhoh came out in 2010.
“WHEN WE FILMED THE LAST ONE, I WAS WITH Ben and John [Hamburg, who co-wrote all three prior films in the franchise and is set to direct the upcoming movie] In My Camper, “He Said,“ And I SAID, ‘LET’S START Writing One Now, to Be Ready for Another One.’ And they said, ‘yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure.’ They Were Humoring Me. ”
Roach Was Encouroaged by Howling Film, Just Based On Hamburg’s Approach, Seemed Reminiscent of the First Movie.
“It’s Always About the Predicament,“ He Said. “I fell in love with that script, the first film script… because Imaging what is like you care so much about igning the Approval TRY YOU’S’S GOING TO MAKE IT. Predicament.
Stiller Adeded, “The Audence Has this History with the Characters and They’re Going to Bring that to the Film Too. So, There’s Something that’s Kind’s IT, I Think, For Mek, For the Any, I. people have with the movie. ”
Durying The Panel, Stiller Was Also Reminded that his part in the first film Originally was meant for someone else: Jim Carrey.
The Comedy Icon, Who Stiller Directed in the 1996 Black Comedy The Cable GuyWAS Originally Set to Star in the Film with Steven Spielberg Planning to Direct. Carrey Even Came Up with The Focker Last Name. Buter Spielberg and Carrey Left The Project, Roach and Stiller Took On the Director and Lead Actor Roles, Respectively.
Remembering that turn of evnts, Stiller ConfirMed, “Jim Carrey Was Going to Be Me? Shit… I Totally Forgot That Part.”
For his part, carrey praized stiller’s performance in a 2008 Interview with Larry King.
“IT WAS PERFERT THAT BEN STILLER DID IT,“ CARREY SAID. “WHEN I SAW IT, I WENT, ‘THAT’S The WAY IT’S SUPPED TO BE DONE.’ ‘
Stiller Did Remember Getting The Call Offering Him The Part, Indicating that de Niro’s Involvement Was Part of What Made Him Say Yes.
“I was on Like the 5 Freeway or Something in La” HE RECALLED. “I think you [to Roach] Called Me Up and SAID, LIKE, ‘ROBERT DE Niro Wants to Do the Movie,’ And I Was Like, ‘He Wants To The Movie With Me? … Well, yeah. ”
Roach Tried to Reassure Stiller That He Was The First Choice.
“I THINK YOU TURNED IT DOWN BEFORE,“ ROach Told Stiller. “And THEN I WENT BACK TO YOU.”
And Stiller Ended Up Being Well-Suited for the ROLE, AS HE Explained That Film Unintentionally Mirrored His Life AROUND OF THE SAME TIM and Ask for Her Father’s Permission.
“IT Was While We Were in Rehearsals for the Movie. And Her Parents Lived in Allennenten, Pennsylvania, and Her Dad Owned A Security Company,” Stiller Recalled. “We have to go back for her Grandfather’s Funeral, and I Think I Found myself in the Basement of Her House with Her Father After The Funeral Telling Hima Daughter.
Polo Was Cast Relativly Late, A FEW DAYS BEFORE FILMING BEGAN, ROach Revealed, With The Actress Sharing More About Her Whirlwind Experience Costume and Quickly Finding Herself in Rehearsal.
“IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I THINK IT WAS HALLOWEEN. IT WAS A SUNDAY, AND I WAS IN Full Halloween Get-U me to be on a redi tonight for a screen test tomorrow with robert de niro and been stiller. Was Speechless, “Polo Recalled. “I have about Three Hours Sleep… I Remember Saying to MySelf, ‘IF I DON’T GIVE Averything, If I Mess this Up, I Will Never Forgive Myself. I WILL NEVER HAVE THIS CHANCE Again.
After Two More Days of ReHearsal, Polo Was Finally Told She Got The Part Before Haring to Quickly Go Home on a Saturday Night to Come Back on Sunday and Start Making the MOVIE ON MONDAY.
In addition to holding onto Memories and Forming a Close Bond with the Cast, Polo Also Had A Lingering Connection to One of the Cats Who Played the Memorable Jinx Family Pet. The Trained Animal Was on the Verge of Retirement, and Polo’s Mother Ended Up Adpting IT.
The Cast and Roach Were Asked About their Favorite Lines, with The Early Dinner, in Wich Stiller’s Character Describes Milking A Cat, Getting A Couple of Stor-Outs. But Thought Fans May Love de Niro’s “I have nipples, Greg, Could you Milk Me,” de Niro HimSelf Has A Different Favrite Line.
That quote comes from whon his overprotective Father Character Thinks that Stiller’s Character Has Been Smoking Pot and Threatens Him by Saying, Among Other Things, “I WILL BRING YOU DOWN.
De niro coodn’t remember if the line was scripted or ad-libbed, But Stiller Knew What Happened and Reminded His Co-Star That Hamburg Rewrote The Scene and Who Ni-De Niro Go. Approvingly.
Meet The Parents 4 is set to be released on nov. 25, 2026.