What the fock? “Meet the Parents 4” has officially been renamed “Focker in Law.”
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo and Owen Wilson will return for the fourth installment in the long-running comedy series, while Ariana Grande is joining the cast.
The new film’s title references the surname of Stiller’s character, Greg Focker. In the original movie, he endures a lot of painfully awkward hijinx while visiting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. “Meet the Parents,” which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, became box office blockbuster with $330 million worldwide. The comedy of errors then spawned two commercially successful sequels: 2004’s “Meet the Fockers” (which introduced Greg’s parents, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman) and 2010’s “Little Fockers.”
John Hamburg, who wrote the first three films, will write and direct “Focker in Law.”
Stiller teased the fourquel during a 25th anniversary screening of “Meet the Parents,” saying they only returned because they found an “organic reason” to revisit these characters.
“What spurred the idea is that I’m the age that Bob was when we did the first movie,” Stiller told the crowd at Tribeca Festival. “It felt like a mirror to the first film, where one of my kids is thinking about introducing his person to the family.”
De Niro revealed he’s read the screenplay, though he stopped short of offering any plot details. “The script is really fun,” he shared. “I’m looking forward to it.”
Audiences, meanwhile, won’t get a glimpse of the on-screen shenanigans until “Focker in Law” opens in theaters on Nov. 25, 2026.
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