{"id":407722,"date":"2026-04-24T00:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:41:08","slug":"iconic-robert-de-niro-80s-movie-nearly-got-sequel-with-jonah-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/407722\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Robert De Niro 80s Movie Nearly Got Sequel With Jonah Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/robert-de-niro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert De Niro<\/a> movie from the 1980s almost got a surprise sequel, and would\u2019ve starred Jonah Hill had it ended up being made. <\/p>\n<p>What Robert De Niro movie nearly got a sequel?<\/p>\n<p>1988\u2019s Midnight Run, apparently had a sequel written by Timothy Dowling. Dowling revealed the news on social media, noting that he had once written a sequel that would\u2019ve seen De Niro paired with either Jonah Hill or Melissa McCarthy, who would\u2019ve played the role of Charles Grodin\u2019s child. <\/p>\n<p>Dowling notes that \u201cDe Niro wanted to do it,\u201d but that an executive at Universal Pictures \u201cnever cared and killed it.\u201d Interestingly enough, in 2021, a sequel to Midnight Run was said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/film\/news\/midnight-run-sequel-robert-de-niro-regina-hall-1235107277\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in development<\/a>, with Regina Hall attached to star in the project, but no updates on the project has ever been made in the time since. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is. I wrote a sequel that would have paired De Niro with Grodins child. At various points it was Jonah Hill or Melissa McCarthy. Both would have been amazing. De Niro wanted to do it. One exec at Uni never cared and killed it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2zDSL9RQrT\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/2zDSL9RQrT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy Dowling (@TimothyDowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimothyDowling\/status\/2047034047101342049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally released in 1988, Midnight Run starred De Niro alongside Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, and Joe Pantoliano. The movie follows the story of a bounty hunter, Jack (De Niro), who attempts to track down an accountant, Jonathan (Grodin), who is wanted by mob bosses. <\/p>\n<p>The movie follows the story of Jack trying to get Jonathan from New York City to Los Angeles. Midnight Run was directed by Martin Brest, and written by George Gallo. The film was a massive success, and praised for its human and chemistry between De Niro and Grodin. The movie did end up getting some sequels, in the form of three television movies that De Niro did not appear in. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An iconic Robert De Niro movie from the 1980s almost got a surprise sequel, and would\u2019ve starred Jonah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[192715,146,192716,85,46,192717,192718,11448,397,30499,192719,19461,15235],"class_list":["post-407722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-charles-grodin","tag-entertainment","tag-george-gallo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-martin-brest","tag-midnight-run","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-timothy-dowling","tag-universal","tag-universal-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}