‘The Hangover’ Gets its Sequel: Release Set for 2011

A follow-up to this summer’s surprise hit of the year, The Hangover, will begin production this October with a Memorial Day 2011 release. Hangover director Todd Philips will start shooting after he completes work on the road-trip comedy Due Date.

Due Date will star Hangover stand-out, Zach Galifianakis, who travels with an expectant father as they race across the country to see the birth of his first child.

Get set for part two

Production will start this Fall for a summer 2010 release.

Philips, along with Scot Armstrong (Old School, Semi-Pro), began writing the still-untitled Hangover sequel after favorable test screenings showed potential for box office success. The Hangover has grossed $216 million domestically and has become the second highest grossing R-rated comedy behind Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop.

Hangover should leap Axel Foley sometime this summer.

The Hangover centers on a Las Vegas bachelor party that turns “into a race against time when three hung-over groomsmen awaken after a night of drunken debauchery to find that the groom has gone missing, and they must attempt to get him to the alter before his wedding day.”