It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World just got a little madder.
Ed Bass, one of the producers behind Bobby, and Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of Mad World director Stanley Kramer, have teamed to make a sequel to the comedy classic.
Titled "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD World," the film would be, like the 1963 film, a large ensemble movie mixing comics and dramatic actors. The story follows the descendants of the characters from the first movie who are thrust into another madcap chase to find a cache of money after it is revealed that the money found in the first movie was counterfeit.
Bass' relationship with the sequel began in 1991 when he produced the Mad World documentary Something a Little Less Serious with Stanley Kramer. The two began planning a sequel, but Kramer became ill, and the project was put on hold. Kramer died in 2001.
A sequel was further derailed when Paramount released 2001's Rat Race, which had a similar concept.
Bass reconnected last year with Karen Sharpe Kramer -- who held the rights and had produced a TV remake of her husband's Western classic High Noon -- when making Bobby.
Ed Bass, one of the producers behind Bobby, and Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of Mad World director Stanley Kramer, have teamed to make a sequel to the comedy classic.
Titled "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD World," the film would be, like the 1963 film, a large ensemble movie mixing comics and dramatic actors. The story follows the descendants of the characters from the first movie who are thrust into another madcap chase to find a cache of money after it is revealed that the money found in the first movie was counterfeit.
Bass' relationship with the sequel began in 1991 when he produced the Mad World documentary Something a Little Less Serious with Stanley Kramer. The two began planning a sequel, but Kramer became ill, and the project was put on hold. Kramer died in 2001.
A sequel was further derailed when Paramount released 2001's Rat Race, which had a similar concept.
Bass reconnected last year with Karen Sharpe Kramer -- who held the rights and had produced a TV remake of her husband's Western classic High Noon -- when making Bobby.
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