If you’ve recently browsed Disney+, you might have noticed a new original film added to the streaming platform as part of the Hulu inclusion. This is a comedy titled Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a time-travel movie centered around gangsters attempting to prevent a grim future by stopping a ‘whacking’.
Starring James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez, and two versions of Vince Vaughn, if you’ve recently watched the film, you might be wondering if a sequel is in the works. If so, we have some unfortunate news.
Director BenDavid Grabinski addressed the sequel conversation, stating that he never had plans for a follow-up film and that it was made to be ‘self-contained’.
Grabinski explained, “For me, it has to be self-contained, and I just… I put everything I had into making the film I wanted to make, and it achieved what I wanted it to. I might wake up in six months and have an epiphany about what I want to do, but I just felt that creatively, if I were to think about a sequel, it would discredit what happens.”
He continued, “I understand that someone might misinterpret the ending as potentially being a cliffhanger, but I don’t think it is. I believe you see everything you need to see to know that, one way or another, Mike will make things right. And you don’t need to see him make things right or know how he does it. You just need to know that Nick did a big thing for Mike, and now Mike will do a big thing for Nick, and that’s the emotional closure of the film.”
Grabinski clarified further, stating that “if I woke up one day and had an idea I truly loved, I could see something like that happening,” but he also stressed that nothing is actively in development.