Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are set to work together again for a new Meet the Parents movie. The new film will be the fourth in the Meet the Parents series.
Deadline reports that Stiller, De Niro, and other stars from the original films, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, are in talks to return. The movie is being developed by Universal Pictures, but the plot is still a secret.
John Hamburg, who co-wrote the first three Meet the Parents movies, will write the screenplay. It’s unclear who will direct. Jane Rosenthal and De Niro will produce the film through Tribeca Productions, along with Jay Roach, who directed the first two movies. Stiller and John Lesher will also produce.
The first Meet the Parents movie, released in 2000, made $330 million worldwide. Stiller played Greg Focker, a guy meeting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. De Niro played Jack, her father, a retired CIA agent who is very protective of his daughter.
In 2004, the sequel Meet the Fockers came out, making $522 million worldwide. It added Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Greg’s parents. The third movie, Little Fockers, came in 2010, with new stars like Jessica Alba and Kevin Hart.
In 2018, Stiller and De Niro had a Meet the Parents reunion on Saturday Night Live, where they recreated the famous lie detector scene from the first movie.