Talking to NowPlayingMag.com, Leiner said the sequel essentially depends on how well the DVD sells. But he's confident. "That is the plan. The writers were hired to write that sequel. And I think it's going to depend on how the DVDs sell. If they become a big seller's I'm hoping they will because I know there's a lot of fans of the movie out there, and hopefully they'll tell their friends and that kind of thing maybe it will take off like an Office Space or a DVD like that. I actually think we have a good shot. We'll know over the next couple of months, into February and March. Plus, I want to go to Amsterdam!".
And again, there won't be a sequel to [another film he directed] "Dude Where's My Car?". "I think the ship has sailed [on a Dude sequel]," he says. "For whatever reason, it took the studio a while to go for that. They hired Philip Stark, who was the writer [on the first film], kind of a year or two after [the original]. It was a long break."
Leiner believes that part of the problem with that film is that its stars, Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott, have become bigger than the property itself.
"I just think to do it with Seann and Ashton would be a) I'm not sure if they're interested, and b) I think the financial model those guys are making so much money now wouldn't make much sense. One of the reasons Dude and also Harold & Kumar got made was that they were [cheap]. Dude was under $15 million and Harold & Kumar was like $9 million; it made it very attractive. So I think if they did it, it would be two new actors, and I'mnot really interested in doing that myself. So I think it's kind of dead."
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