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Hoffman a "Focker"
It's official: Dustin Hoffman's a Focker.
The Oscar-winning actor will play Ben Stiller's dad in Meet the Fockers, the sequel to 2000's blockbuster comedy Meet the Parents.
Hoffman will join a potent cast that already includes Parents parent and fellow two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro, with whom Hoffman costarred in 1997's Wag the Dog. This time out, instead of planning a war to cover up presidential sexcapades, the two thesps will face off over planning a wedding of their two children.
The Focker part could help Hoffman overcome a recent box-office slump . The erstwhile Tootsie has failed to wow moviegoers in such flicks as 1999's Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, 2002's Moonlight Mile, and last year's punchless combo of Confidence and Runaway Jury.
Joining Stiller, Hoffman and De Niro in the Universal comedy will be returning cast members Blythe Danner and Teri Polo; Jay Roach will be back in the directing chair.
Meet the Fockers will pick up where Meet the Parents left off. After finally managing to endear himself to his neurotic future in-laws, hapless male nurse Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Stiller) must now introduce them to his parents before he and fiancée Pam Byrnes (Polo) tie the knot.
Of course, his laid-back parents are polar opposites from uptight ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and his wife Dina (Danner). Presumably hijinks ensue.
No word yet who'll essay the role of Mother Focker. At the premiere of his latest comedy, Along Came Polly, Stiller revealed to USA Today his "dream" choice--Barbra Streisand. Initial reports had Stiller's real-life parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, playing his on-screen 'rents.
The sequel's script was penned by original Parents scribe Jim Herzfeld with an assist from Tim Rasmussen and Vince DiMeglio.
Universal green-lighted a sequel soon after Parents grossed more than $166 million domestically over the 2000 holiday season. But instead of rush-releasing the Fockers, the studio adopted a go-slow strategy to get a solid script first. Along the way, the studio changed the name of Stiller's family from Fockers to Fokkers, apparently worried that the former was just one letter away from an NC-17 rating, but has since changed the name back to the original spelling.
Meet the Fockers starts filming in March and is slated to hit theaters on December 22.
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