{"id":749045,"date":"2026-07-07T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749045\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:20:13","slug":"producer-greg-shapiro-teases-harold-kumar-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749045\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Greg Shapiro Teases ‘Harold & Kumar 4’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHarold & Kumar\u00a0producer Greg Shapiro<\/a> confirmed that the fourth instalment of the stoner buddy comedy franchise is still set to go ahead, with key writers and actors all lined up for the upcoming project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re working on the screenplay right now for the next\u00a0Harold and Kumar\u00a0movie, but everybody\u2019s back \u2013 the actors, the writers \u2013 the writers are directing,\u201d said Shapiro, who was speaking at the Karlovy Vary<\/a> International Film Festival on Tuesday. \u201cHopefully, we\u2019ll be shooting it soon. It just like any movie where it all has to come together in the right way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year it was reported that Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators of Netflix\u2019s hit\u00a0Karate Kid\u00a0sequel series\u00a0Cobra Kai, were set to develop a new\u00a0Harold & Kumar\u00a0film for Lionsgate\u2019s Mandate Pictures. Hurwtiz and Schlossberg are set to direct from a script written with Heald. After scripting the original 2004 film,\u00a0Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, they went on to make their directorial debut with\u00a0Harold & Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay\u00a0in 2008 followed by\u00a0A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the first film was only a modest hit in theatres, it exploded on DVD and gained a cult following. Films to date have cumulatively grossed around $104M worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShapiro, whose credits also include\u00a0The Hurt Locker\u00a0and\u00a0A House of Dynamite, the former of which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture, sat down for a session at Karlovy Vary\u2019s Industry Days strand where he participated in a wide-ranging conversation about producing with\u00a0Nomadland\u00a0producer Mollye Asher<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAsher reflected on her experience of working with director Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, notably the director\u2019s first film\u00a0Songs My Brothers Taught Me. That indie project, which was one of Asher\u2019s early jobs, saw its financing drop out just before the film was about to shoot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was early on in my career, and I didn\u2019t really know so many places to go so we had to send everybody home,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople had sub-let their apartments. We paid people for their time and a little bit more because people had given up other jobs but then we got back to New York and [Chloe] was like, \u2018How much do we have in the bank account?\u2019 We had gotten a number of grants at that time. We did crowdfunding, and she was like, \u2018Do you just want to try and make it for what we have? And so myself and my producing partner on that, Angela [C. Lee], we said yes. We were not going to give up on this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShapiro, meanwhile, reflected on an early experience in his career, when he produced comedy\u00a0The Rules of Attraction. That film, directed by Roger Avary and based on Bret Easton Ellis\u2019 1987 novel of the same name, which was months into the shoot when 9\/11 happened.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a college movie and there was a party in the movie called \u2018The End of the World Party\u2019 and that\u2019s what we were shooting. We all got to set [before the first plane hit] because we were there really early in the morning and people panicked, rightfully so. I was panicked. Everyone wanted us to shut down but we couldn\u2019t shut down because it was such a small independent film and Roger stood up, and I\u2019ll never forget this, he stood up in front of the entire crew and said, \u2018If anybody wants to leave right now, I will totally understand and you\u2019ll be welcome back tomorrow or the next day. There\u2019s no judgement but I need to be here right now, shooting this movie.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShapiro continued saying that everyone \u2013 with the exception of one person \u2013 stayed on set to continue making the movie because people wanted \u201cto be around people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe felt like family at this point because we\u2019d been shooting for months at this point and there was this tightness and it was the first example that I felt as a producer of everybody rowing in the same direction. There was this unity that Roger had created and it just happened to be put to the test on September 11.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harold & Kumar\u00a0producer Greg Shapiro confirmed that the fourth instalment of the stoner buddy comedy franchise is still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,321310,312002,305967,321311,206],"class_list":["post-749045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-greg-shapiro","tag-karlovy-vary","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival","tag-mollye-asher","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}