Superman’s Skyler Gisondo joins Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro for the upcoming Meet the Parents sequel
Skyler Gisondo brought new life to Jimmy Olsen in James Gunn’s Superman. The actor got to portray the young Daily Planet photographer’s penchant for attracting women and he might have attracted another crazily attached significant other if he were to portray the main Focker for the upcoming Meet the Parents sequel. Deadline reports that Gisondo has signed on to join the comedy franchise, but there is yet to be confirmation on which role he’s slated to play.
Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are already on board to reprise their characters. John Hamburg, co-writer of the Meet the Parents trilogy, returns to write this new installment, and he also sits in the director’s chair this time around.
Wicked star Ariana Grande was recently announced to be joining the fray in the role of a “ball-busting” woman engaged to Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam (Teri Polo) Focker’s son. Could Gisondo be the grown little Focker getting his balls busted? Or will he be one of the siblings?
People recently asked Stiller about the movie and the comedy actor kept his lips sealed on details except for teasing Grande’s role. He stated, “I can’t really talk too much, I guess, at this point about the movie.” Stiller later pays Grande a compliment by stating how she is “so great with comedy.” Stiller continues to say, “But the character she’s playing is— she’s going to be really, really funny and kind of the whole engine of the new movie. So it’s exciting.”
As for why it’s time to add another installment in the Meet the Parents series, Stiller said, “I think what spurred the idea was that at this point in time. I’m the age that Bob was when we did the first movie. Teri [Polo] is the same age [Ariana] was when we did it, and there was this sort of sort mirror to the first film in terms of my kids are grown. And my kid, one of my kids, is thinking about introducing his person to the family. I think life informs everything that’s happened in the last, you know, 25 years, and it’s been a while since we did the last one. I think what like 15 years ago? So it’s kind of like great to look at it as a sort of like a new thing. But of course, there’s all these great memories and I feel like our connections are still there. When we get back together, it’s just like, it’s kind of like, all baked in there.” Despite the timing playing out perfectly, De Niro said that he was trying to get a fourth Meet the Parents going while Little Fockers was filming.
You can meet the new film on November 25, 2026.
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