Y'all, I'm so tired, I could use a whole pallet of Booty Juice, but I can't seem to find it on shelves anymore. Which obviously means it’s beyond time for Ben Stiller & Co. to take audiences back into the world of Tropic Thunder’s all-star actor Tugg Speedman and Tom Cruise’s fan-favorite sleazeball Les Grossman. (Obviously Brandon T. Jackson’s Alpa Chino is also welcome, since Booty Juice was all him.) But how close are we to realistically getting a proper follow-ups?
Earlier in 2025, the Mission: Impossible franchise’s Christopher McQuarrie shared that he and Tom Cruise have had “fucking funny” conversations about Les Grossman, and said that there’s serious consideration been put into how to properly make that reprisal happen. Now, Ben Stiller addressed the idea of another Tropic Thunder project with Esquire, and it sounds like maybe getting into revival mode for the newest Meet the Parents sequel is greasing the mental gears to bring some of these characters back, even if there isn't a solid idea yet. As Stiller put it:
