Vaughn and Favreau nearly went back on the hunt for “pretty babies” in a sequel to their breakout hit. They also planned a follow-up to their re-team in Made.
Vince Vaughn is having a big month with a new AppleTV+ series and getting his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The comedic actor also recently made headlines when he appeared on Hot Ones and broke down why studios shy away from his brand of irreverent comedies. You can see Vaughn in a new comedy series from the creator of Ted Lasso and Shrinking Bill Lawrence called Bad Monkey. Our own Alex Maidy recently reviewed the show, saying, “Bad Monkey will appeal to fans of shows like Burn Notice and Monk, but anyone expecting this series to be a comedy version of True Detective is looking in the wrong place.”
As Vaughn gets his new star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he speaks with Variety about some of the projects that never came to fruition. A couple of them involve his Swingers co-star, and current Marvel/Star Wars creative, Jon Favreau. Vaughn revealed that there was a script written for a Swingers sequel when he was asked about reprising roles, “I was always of the mindset of go make something new. But there was a script even for Swingers 2 that Jon wrote that was really fun, but we didn’t feel like it was the right thing to do. Obviously when you have a commercial hit, there’s always a race to get the sequel out as soon as possible, but I always felt like it had to have its own story. So, there were talks at different times.”
Although they never officially made a sequel to their breakout hit, Vaughn and Favreau would team up again for Made, which brought back similar comedic sensibilities to a different kind of plot. After Made, it was planned that Vaughn and Favreau would do one more film in their “buddy comedy trilogy” that was supposed to be set as a Western. Vaughn explained, “It was The Martial Revelation, about a Hasidic Jew who was a gunfighter in the Old West. It was comedic, but it was played straight like Swingers or Made. It was a great script, but we never found the timing to do it. But Made was fun — we went a little darker with it and an ending that wasn’t as optimistic, which, to me, was the fun of exploring that.”