Wet Hot American Summer Sequel To Reunite “The Whole Gang”

On the cast list for David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer were Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, David Hyde Pierce, Janeane Garofalo, Bradley Cooper, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter, Molly Shannon, Christopher Meloni…

Do I need to go on? There’s pages of this stuff.

An unhinged and deliberately disjointed summer camp comedy, Wet Hot American Summer is a cult movie in at least two senses of the word: it has a very passionate group of followers; and it features lots of Hollywood types hanging out near a lake, bedding down in strange smelling cabins, indulging in guitar strumming and inappropriate sex.

If you haven’t seen Wet Hot, I suggest you give it a go. Love or loathe, it’s a real talking point movie, and a great time capsule too. I happen to pretty much love it.

This trailer doesn’t really do it justice:

Appearing on Bravo TV’s Watch What Happens Live last night, Showalter, who co-wrote the film as well as taking a role, responded to an influx of tweets wanting to know if there’s going to be a sequel. You can see his response in this clip:

Or, if you’re not in the US, here’s the gist: it’s “absolutely” going to happen and “the whole gang” will be coming back. We’ll have to wait and see who exactly is in this “gang.”

This makes concrete what David Wain tossed out in an episode of Jeff Goldsmith’s superb Q&A podcast a few months back. Essentially, at that point, the idea was being kicked around, and the premise being formulated. All Wain could really give away was that the film would be set in the same summer as the original, so instead of the cast being about fifteen years older than their roles, they’d now be about twenty five years too old.

Thanks to the Huff for the heads up.