Star Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus are reportedly attached to the follow-up, with "Elf" scribe David Berenbaum signed on to pen the screenplay.
Williams starred in the original as a struggling actor and divorced father who tries to get closer to his children by pretending to be a Scottish nanny named Eupheginia Doubtfire.
The project has been languishing in development for over a decade, but suddenly picked up heat again when a new storyline by Berenbaum excited the interest of both Williams and Columbus.
No story details on the follow up have been released yet.
This is so absurd and desperate! I don't care if Williams is interested and Columbus says yes---this will suck!!
Actress Mara Wilson, who played Williams and Sally Field’s young daughter Natalie Hillard, in the original tweeted:
For the record, no, I do not have anything to do with the Mrs. Doubtfire sequel, nor will I.
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) April 17, 2014I've been in some mediocre movies, but I've never been in a sequel. And I have no interest in being in one now.
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) April 17, 2014Sequels generally suck unless they were planned as part of a trilogy or series. I think Doubtfire ended where it needed to end.
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) April 17, 2014
Oh dear God, no!
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