The creators of Cobra Kai have inked a deal to deliver a Harold & Kumar SEQUEL!
Harold and Kumar are going to get some burgers and buzz one more time.
Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed a deal to write a new installment of Harold & Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie series that was popular in the early 2000s.
Hurwitz and Schlossberg will also direct the feature, which is being developed at Lionsgate-owned Mandate Pictures. It is a full-circle moment for the gentlemen, as their Hollywood career got high thanks to writing the original movie, 2004’s Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, and making their directorial debut with 2008’s Harold & Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay.
John Cho and Kal Penn, who played the title characters, are expected to return, although no deals have been made with the actors. Neil Patrick Harris was also a key component to the cast, and his involvement is unclear.
The original Harold & Kumar, directed by Danny Leiner, followed to two young men, Korean American Harold Lee and Indian American Kumar Patel, who embark on a road trip to the Northeast burger joint named White Castle to satiate their munchies after they smoke some weed. But with the nearest White Castle miles away, they find themselves on a series of increasingly bizarre adventures, including getting arrested by racist cops, getting high with a cheetah, and picking up a hitchhiker who turns out to be famous TV actor Neil Patrick Harris, high on ecstasy.
“We’re fired up to bring Harold and Kumar back in a return to the unapologetically R-rated, smoke-filled chaos that started it all,” Hurwitz and Schlossberg said jointly in a statement. “It’s high time they puff and pass their wisdom onto a new generation. Just don’t tell their kids.”
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