Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan Returning for ‘The Family Plan’ Sequel at Apple Original Films
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Mark Wahlberg will fire up the minivan again, returning as a government assassin turned suburban dad in a sequel to “The Family Plan.” Apple Original Films announced that the follow-up is in development with Wahlberg set to produce, as well as act in the picture.
His co-stars Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Colletti and Van Crosby will also reprise their roles as the various members of the Morgan family with Simon Cellan Jones, director of the action-comedy, set to return.
Critics mostly hated on “The Family Plan,” but audiences appeared to embrace it. Apple in a breathless announcement devoid of things like meaningful data said that the film was “the most viewed movie in Apple TV+ history.” It was later supplanted by the George Clooney and Brad Pitt action-comedy “Wolfs,” which the service, with a similar lack of statistical evidence, recently enthused had taken the “most viewed movie in Apple TV+ history” crown.
Will “The Family Plan 2” wrest it back? Skydance Media will produce “The Family Plan” sequel. David Coggeshall, the writer of the first movie, penned the script for part deux, which takes place at Christmas in Europe where the family’s dream vacation is upended after Wahlberg’s character’s past comes back to haunt them. “I am beyond excited to step back into the shoes of Dan Morgan again alongside my brilliant co-stars, and with Simon and David returning,” said Wahlberg in a statement. “Making ‘The Family Plan,’ and seeing it become an instant success with global audiences in the way that it did, has been incredibly rewarding.
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