Latest news on American Pie 4

After seemingly hammering the franchise into the ground with four (to date) pretty terrible straight-to-DVD sequels, you'd figure that all and sundry would be standing over the corpse of the American Pie franchise and opting to leave it be. That, however, isn't the case, and as was revealed earlier in the year, a full-on American Pie 4 is planned for cinema release.

The film, which is being written and directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (who made the first two Harold & Kumar movies), is aiming to reunite the original cast of the first three films. And producer Craig Perry has been chatting to ComingSoon about the progress of the project.

"I'm hoping to have something to look at it in the New Year," he said. "We'll see when that fits in. As you can imagine, a lot of it has to do with scheduling of the actors because they're all busy. Alyson (Hannigan's) got the show and the baby, so she's got plenty on her plate, so there's a lot of people who have a lot of things to do, and I think if we get a script - which I think we will - that everybody is excited about it, and then it's going to be about the schedule, because it's going to be really hard to get that gang back together."

Perry confirmed that the plan is to bring as many of the cast back for the new film as possible, even those who were dropped by the time American Pie 3 rolled around. "For me, it makes sense to bring everybody back,",he argued, "because at a certain point, if you start winding it down, it isn't what it's meant to be, and I feel like those characters have become part of the cultural lexicon, you kind of know who they are, and I think there's an interest in seeing where they are, because they haven't been on screen for seven years."

There's no timeframe on American Pie 4 right now, but we'd be surprised if it didn't go into production next year.

For more on what Mr Perry had to say, check out the full interview at ComingSoon, right here.

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