Good sweet gracious! It appears that the American Pie franchise may come back from the direct to DVD dead to live anew in theaters. We get the following word on the matter thanks to the moviehole via movieweb:
It seems that the franchise that made us look at pie in interesting ways is coming back for another helping. According to Moviehole, it seems that Universal is scrapping its lucrative straight-to-DVD American Pie spinoff’s and moving forward with a fourth theatrical feature film.
It was also said that this fourth film might catch up with Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan’s Jim and Michelle, who were married in the last theatrical outing, American Wedding.
I’m not big on the American Pie films. I appreciate them for having their own take on the teenage hi-jinx film, but I never found them to be all that funny.
It’s strange for a series to return from Direct To DVD to the big screen… I wonder if this is the first time this sort of thing has happened. It will interesting to see how successful another theatre run will be. I am going to guess that they have tied down a few of the original cast members, otherwise I don’t think they would have bothered.
We will fill you in on further updates as the news is made available to us.
