Sequel to MRS. DOUBTFIRE in the works...

[CapnHook]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 11:41am

Eleven years after the Robin Williams drag comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire" appeared on the big screen, a sequel to the hit film is in the works at Fox 2000. Williams is in early talks to reprise his role as Mrs. Doubtfire and resume producing duties with Marsha Williams reports Variety.

Bonnie Hunt also is in talks to pen the project. In the original, directed by Chris Columbus, Williams played an estranged father who poses as a Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, in order to get access to his children and successfully bypass his ex-wife (Sally Field).

The film grossed $219 million domestically. The film garnered two Golden Globes in 1994, one for best picture (comedy/musical) and one for Williams as best actor in a comedy/musical.

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:17pm

LOVED the first one, but is it REAAAALLLY Necessary? Updated On: 11/19/04 at 12:17 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:20pm

apparently so.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:22pm

I'm pretty sure those kids don't need a nanny anymore.

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:23pm

So will this be about his Mr. Rogers rip-off show?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:24pm

Maybe it will be based on his real life story - how he married his kids' nanny (a fact that still creeps me out - fortunately he can afford their therapy) and then got her a job as a big movie producer.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:44pm

Holy crap; it got a Golden Globe for Best Picture? What was the competiton?

I mostly remember Mrs. Doubtfire for being the only PG-13 movie I watched before I was 13.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 12:47pm

Will Harvey be in it?

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:06pm

I really do wonder what the story is going to be like considering the first movie didn't really give a possibility for a sequel.

You can look at the competition here:
http://www.thegoldenglobes.com/

The year is 1993. Out of that group, Much Ado About Nothing was robbed.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:07pm

It could be the kids were all in some sort of an accident and require constant stay at home care.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:07pm

Ah, okay, Matt. That could work, actually.

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:12pm

I would have prefered it if Mrs. Doubtfire was the one who had the accident and needed constant stay-at-home care.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:13pm

Or had an accident and died and there was no movie.

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 1:15pm

My thoughts exactly.

Maybe his bitchy oldest daughter realized what a freak her dad was and cut him out of her life. Also, she repressed the memory of Mrs. Doubtfire so this will be all new to her. Years later, she has a kid and needs a babysitter. Guess who comes back and applies for the job?

Updated On: 11/19/04 at 01:15 PM

[broadway86]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:10pm

This film is one of my favorite comedies. It is seriously underrated. However... what could possibly be the storyline for this one?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:12pm

Seriously UNDERrated? You're kidding, right?

Posted: 11/19/04 at 2:12pm

I like Harvey.
I like Robin.

But why?

[sabrelady]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:41pm

I LOVE Pierce Brosnan in this. But I agree. Why? (except to milk it for all the $$ I mean)Also, other than this film, what has his wife succesfully produced? (DON'T say his kids!)

[gettinhep]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:43pm

Which body parts will they set on fire in the sequel?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:53pm

*GASP*

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:53pm

ugghh..disliked the first one so I'm sure I won't bother with the second, unless they go with that suggestion about the kids all being invalids.. could kind of go with a cross between Mrs. Doubtfire and Patch Adams, imagine all the funny things he could do with the bedpans.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:11pm

Christ Rathnait, it's always something to see which issues get your bloomers in a bunch. So many people have posted horrible misogynist things in threads that you continue to contribute to without comment and then you come along with this stuff about Robin Williams and his wife. He has actually addressed this issue in interviews, and about how crass it is when people frame his current marriage the way you did. He has stated that his first marriage was indeed over before he got involved with his current wife.

"[A]nd then got her a job as a big movie producer." I'm wondering if you have some sort of problem with women of if there is some other explanation for the constant thread of judgmentalism that seeps through so many of your posts.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:17pm

oops double Updated On: 11/19/04 at 05:17 PM

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:35pm

I found Rasthnait's cynical comments an enlightening and refreshing change from the Robin WIlliams (unwarranted IMO) lovefest that I see so often

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:45pm

Yeah, the woman who gets up in arms if anybody says anything against Britney (because it's "boring," talk about unwarrented) is big on trashing celebrities' wives. I'm in total agreement that that's cynical, but please explain to me what about it was enlightening?

Updated On: 11/19/04 at 05:45 PM