Universal Says, "Screw You, Wiig! We're Making a Bridesmaids Sequel"

Kristin Wiig made a really really really funny film called Bridesmaids. You might have seen it; it grossed over $300 million worldwide. Now Universal is making a sequel without Wiig's involvement because they can.

"We aren't working on that," Wiig told The Hollywood Reporter. "Annie [her co-writer] and I aren't planning a sequel. We are writing something else."

But Universal loves that they made so much money with the film — which was the biggest film of producer Judd Apatow's career — and they are not about to give up on milking the blood from that turnip even though the original creator of the film has no interest or desire to see an unnecessary sequel to her original work. Sigh. So typical and expected, isn't it? When money and creativity are always at odds, pushing back and forth on each other, and filmmaking has become a standardized process created in a factory-like setting such as Universal, what else can we expect?

Listen to how pompous this sounds:

"We are over the moon with the success of Bridesmaids [Editor's note: Yeah, I'll BET you are], and if we do a sequel we want to get it right. We are talking to filmmakers now about concepts, and if the right one emerges, we'll move forward."

Hilarious Melissa McCarthy seems to be the actress they're targeting to keep in the sequel so it doesn't just end up being a totally different movie randomly titled Bridesmaids 2, but no word on if she's in yet.

Apatow said of the whole thing, "The key is we have to come up with an idea that is as good or better than the first one. We don't want to do it unless it can be great."

Unfortunately, it seems like they're already making it even though they are pretty sure it won't be great. Sorry, Kristin! Capitalism sucks ass. But you're rich now, so nothing matters.

In case you missed it because you live under a rock of crack and shame, here's Bridesmaids, complete with poop jokes: