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During a recent appearance at Nashville Comic Con, Norris was asked if he’s going to be in the follow-up. “I haven’t gotten a call about it yet, but it’d be a lot of fun to make a return appearance,” the star said during his spotlight panel.
In the initial film, Norris has a cameo role as a judge in the dodgeball tournament. It’s not necessarily a role worthy of a spin-off, but the actor was arguably at the height of his meme popularity at the time of the film’s release.
What will Dodgeball 2 be about?
Speaking with us last Halloween, Dodgeball star Justin Long said he knows Vaughn’s been working on idea for a sequel for quite some time. He went on to say he’d be interested in reprising his role for the film as well.
“I do a podcast with my brother called Life is Short and when we had Ben Stiller on and I asked Ben about this because I had just worked with Vince Vaughn again. Vince wrote this movie, it’s like a parody of Christmas movies that I have coming out this December called Christmas with the Campbells; so I had just been around Vince a lot, and Vince had been telling me that he has this great idea for a sequel. I don’t know if he had yet pitched it to Ben, but I kind of set up the pitch, I felt like I should facilitate the pitch.”
He continued, “Of course I would love to do it and I hope that it ends up happening, but I think Ben is a little, what he told me on that podcast was that he’s a little trepidatious about doing a sequel to something so beloved, something that people enjoy so much that. It’s very risky, you don’t wanna s–t on the original, you want something just as good. So I think he’s a little wary of that, of trying to recreate something that was very specific to that time, but I hope he comes around on it. Vince is a very convincing person, so I’m just hoping Vince can convince him with his idea. It’s a funny idea, I don’t wanna say what it is.”
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is now streaming on Max.
