That's right folks. According to sources, a sequel to the 1963 ensemble comedy classic from Stanley Kramer has been in the works for over fifteen years. Again, this is quoted from http://www.comingsoon.net:

Quoted Text Ed Bass, one of the producers behind Bobby, and Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World director Stanley Kramer, have teamed to make a sequel to the comedy classic, says The Hollywood Reporter. 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. No director is attached, and Bass and Kramer plan to finance the film independently. The duo want the sequel to be have an even bigger cast than the original, and they hope to involve actors from the original movie. George Barris -- the car designer and car customizer behind such famed screen vehicles as the Batmobile, the Monkeemobile and KITT, the car from "Knight Rider" -- is designing cars for the movie.

There it is, folks. Whether we like it or not, it's apparently coming.


Cheers, Chismeister.

The only thing this movie had on its side the first time around was an all-star cast. Everything else about it was pretty thin and one dimensional, not that an all-star cast can said to be rounded in any way.

They did a remake of this, called Rat Race.  It wasn't that good.

In regards to a sequel, what can they do?  The original movie ended with everyone in a hospital and no one got the money.


Phil

They could end up doing something like Ocean's 11 and go for a completely different ending.  Maybe not though, since I don't think there's as much motivation for sequels.

Wonder if the remake will be as long as the original.

Quoted from dogglebe The original movie ended with everyone in a hospital and no one got the money.

It's amazing that no one is surprised about a sequel as almost everyone who played in the 1963 movie are dead.

Except Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar (I'm not sure), Ethel Merman; Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers or Terry-Thomas are dead.  

I don't think the word "sequel" would be appropriate.

Michel

It'll probably be closer to a remake than a true sequel. However, what they will likely do is cast different people in the original roles, and go from there. That's not uncommon.