MacGruber singularly failed to light up the box office when the movie based on Will Forte’s Saturday Night Live sketches launched in 2010, earning a hair over $9 million worldwide from a $10 million budget. But thanks to it going on to become something of a cult comedy via home entertainment releases, co-writer/star Forte says he’s committed to making another. Even if few others are right now…
“There’s nothing I would rather do than that,” he tells Entertainment Weekly, while admitting that right now his time is consumed by successful TV comedy The Last Man On Earth. “It’s not a question of if but when. This show takes up every second of every day. Come February, if I have a little bit of time, Jorma (Taccone, who co-wrote and directed the film), (co-writer) John Solomon, and I will get together and we’ll start banging it out.”
They have already figured out two-thirds of an outline to help with the scripting process. “Then, of course, we have to take maybe a month to have a dick-joke pass where we make our dick jokes better,” laughs Forte. “And then we’ll do another dick joke pass. And then we’ll see where it is from there.”
While he won’t say anything about what the be-mulleted, often-wrong hero could be up to next time, he and the others have at least had an idea for an opening. “There is a possibility of starting it in a way that you would never ever start an action movie. “We have this idea for a cold open, which we just don’t know if we have the balls to do. And we’ve done some crazy stuff. This is just like, ‘Do we really want to do this? Is this how we want to start out the movie?’ It’s pretty gnarly... But we might just have to do it.” Of course, the next step would be convincing someone to actually make a sequel to a money-losing original that got terrible reviews. Netflix, perhaps?