The comedy We’re the Millers was a surprise hit when it was released last summer, and now, it’s being turned into a franchise. THR reports that a We’re the Millers sequel is in the works, with the movie’s four stars – Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter, and Emma Roberts – expected to return although no deals are in place. The original’s director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, is also returning, while a new writer, Adam Sztykiel (Due Date, NBC’s upcoming midseason sitcom Undateable), is being brought on.
The first movie starred Sudeikis as an experienced pot dealer who hires Aniston, Poulter, and Roberts’s characters to be his fake family so he can smuggle a shipment of marijuana from Mexico to the US. A surprise hit, it grossed over $150 million domestically, making it the second highest-grossing comedy of last year behind The Heat.