Canceled Comedy Movie Sequels That Broke Our Hearts

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson made quite the tag team, playing off each other beautifully in the 2005 R-rated comedy «Wedding Crashers.» The $40 million production made over $288 million at the global box office and became a rewatchable classic. With the fanfare and financial success behind it, plus Vaughn and Wilson’s undeniable on-screen chemistry, a sequel seemed inevitable, but it never came to fruition.

Director David Dobkin revealed why on Quora. He explained how «Wedding Crashers» was released in a period when producers and studios weren’t interested in sequels. However, Dobkin and the stars came up with a solid idea. Dobkin wrote, «Vince, Owen, and myself sat around at Owen’s house one day and broke the story. It was really, really funny. We wanted Daniel Craig to be the ultimate wedding crasher, with his sexy body and his speedo, and the two guys would be incredibly threatened by him. He was like the next generation terminator of wedding crashing.»

In 2016, news broke that «Fist Fight» writers Evan Susser and Van Robichaux would write «Wedding Crashers 2,» which would see Dobkin, Vaughn, Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Isla Fisher all returning for the production. However, the project all but fell apart in September 2021 after Wilson decided to do another movie instead.