Break out the White Castle as a result of Kal Penn and John Cho are anticipated to return for one more “Harold and Kumar” journey.
A fourth film is in the works at Lionsgate-owned Mandate Pictures with the unique “Harold & Kumar” writers Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg set to direct a brand new installment in the buddy stoner comedy collection. They will even write the screenplay with Josh Heald, in accordance to the Hollywood Reporter which broke the news.
Cho and Penn are presumed to reprise their roles as Harold and Kumar however no offers have been finalized. It’s unclear if Neil Patrick Harris, who performed a pivotal function in the movies, might be again.
The unique journey, 2004’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” adopted two friends whose pot-fueled munchies journey to the fast-food burger joint takes a zany flip. The comedy turned a success and spawned two sequels, 2008’s “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” and 2011’s “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.”
Penn has lengthy expressed a need to return to the world of Harold and Kumar.
“We would love to do a fourth movie. John Cho and I text about it all the time,” Penn told Variety in 2020. “Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg — who created and wrote all three movies in the franchise — we all would love to do one. I think we all, thankfully, have the blessing of being really busy right now and want to find the right venue and the right timing.”
