It looks like we might get to meet the Little Fockers, but we will have to do it without Bernie Focker, as a dispute over the size of his role has Dustin Hoffman possibly backing out of the third installment of the franchise.
Dustin Hoffman might not return for the third installment in the Meet the Parents franchise. Entertainment Weekly is reporting a rumor that “there has been strife between Hoffman and the studio over the size of the part, the scheduling of the days on set and other difficulties.” Hoffman has agreed to appear in the film, titled Little Fockers, as part of a funny cameo near the end of the movie, but it seems like that will no longer happen. Universal declined to comment.
Now I like Dustin Hoffman, but I honestly didn’t care one bit for him in Meet the Fockers, and with Little Fockers being about the new generation of Fockers, I don’t see any need for something significant from the grandparents outside of a cameo showing them sharing the joy of the new babies birth. That is all I would have expected.
And frankly if they did bow to his request at a bigger role, it would take away from the film. Letting him walk is just fine since it looks like he was just getting a cameo anyways. Dustin is moving into that “remember him?” category and maybe that’s what he is worried about.
