Jennifer Aniston says that a We’re The Millers sequel almost happened
The Murder Mystery 2 actor said "there was talk" to make a sequel to the 2013 road-trip comedy
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While sequels, remakes and requels (as 2021's Scream aptly called itself) are all the rage in modern Hollywood, there are just as many continuations of IP that get thrown in the garbage. Maybe the cast couldn’t get back together, or perhaps the interest had waned in the project, but whatever the case may be, some sequels just never make it past the idea phase. Case in point, The Morning Show’s Jennifer Aniston detailed a few sequels that never came to be for the actor in a recent interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, including a follow-up film to 2013's We’re The Millers.
During an interview promoting her and Adam Sandler’s own continuation of their Netflix film Murder Mystery, Aniston was asked by the interviewer of other sequels she was almost involved with, excluding any that came to fruition like Horrible Bosses 2.
“Yes, We’re The Millers,” answered the Friends star. “There was talk about that. But that one didn’t happen.”
As to why the road-trip comedy’s sequel never made it into production, Aniston said she “couldn’t remember” the reason. Although We’re The Millers was a box office hit, one cause could have been how it was viewed as only ‘okay’ by critics, with Roger Ebert’s site and The Guardian both giving it a 3-out-of-5-star rating. Even so, a sequel seemed to be in place in 2014, though any last news on the project came that same year when The Hollywood Reporter announced Adam Sztykiel (Black Adam) was hired to write the script.
However, Aniston made it clear that there was one film series she never had plans on re-entering: Leprechaun and its unrelenting amount of slasher sequels.
“I had had it with leprechauns,” said the Cake actor about her film debut. “That’s enough luck for me.”
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We’re the Millers made $270 million worldwide on a budget of less than $40 million. I wonder what stopped them from making another one. Sudeikis was certainly available pre-Ted Lasso.Sidenote: anyone else remember when Sudeikis was growing his hair long for a movie, but then the movie didn’t end up filming? Olivia Wilde gave him a haircut on Ellen while Sudeikis was blindfolded, IIRC. I don’t think it’s ever been revealed what that movie was. Maybe it was We’re the Millers 2…
We finally watched We’re the Millers a few months ago (while high, of course) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Perfect movie for that state of mind. I can’t believe that goofy-looking kid is Adam Warlock.
Yeah, it’s an excellent folding laundry or doing the dishes movie.
Ebert’s ratings were famously out of four stars, not five.I am only saying this because I was obsessed with Ebert from a young age. He was always a fun read, but after he lost the ability to speak his blogging became especially insightful and introspective. He was probably the first celebrity death that gave me that weird parasocial feeling of loss, because I read him every other day for the years leading up to that.