Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are reportedly set to star in a fourth Meet the Parents film.
Stiller and De Niro, have not worked together since 2010’s Little Fockers, which was the third film in the franchise, a follow-up to 2004’s Meet the Fockers.
They will be joined by Blythe Danner and Teri Polo for the fourth instalment, with John Hamburg on board to write the script. Hamburg was behind the previous three films as well as Zoolander and Along Came Polly.
At the time of writing, no director is attached to the project.
Deadline adds that De Niro and Stiller will also work as producers on the film, along with Jane Rosenthal, Matt Reilly, Jacqueline Garell and Jay Roach, who directed the first two films.
Meet the Parents was a huge success upon release in 2000, earning more than $330m (£235m) at the box office. Meet the Fockers, which also starred Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand, was an even bigger hit, earning $522m (£409m) when it was released in 2004.
The series followed the awkward relationship between Stiller’s Greg Focker and his in-laws, played by Danner and De Niro, who appeared as a retired CIA agent and Vietnam war veteran.
Stiller’s long-term collaborator Owen Wilson also starred as his partner’s ex-boyfriend. The subsequent films added Hoffman and Streisand as Stiller’s eccentric parents. It has not been confirmed whether they will be in the fourth movie.
Stiller, now 58, has spent the majority of his time recently working behind the camera.
“I’ve been working on projects as a director and producer for a while, and wanting to act, but I kind of made the choice a few years ago that I was only going to do something if it really hit me,” Stiller explained during a recent panel at the Toronto International Film Festival following the screening of a new Christmas movie, called Nutcrackers.
It marks Stiller’s first time in a lead role since 2017’s Brad’s Status and The Meyerowitz Stories.
Since taking a break from fronting movies, Stiller has been working as a producer and director on several titles, including Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning sci-fi thriller Severance, which is returning for its second season on January 17, 2025.
