*Regina Hall claims “Girls Trip 2” has been delayed due to COVID.
“You can’t have a film that interactive in the middle of a pandemic,” Hall told PEOPLE. “It’s about being out and about. So I think that kind of changed it too. People were really waiting for things to calm down.”
The movie, directed by Malcolm D. Lee, stars Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Queen Latifah, and Jada Pinkett Smith as four college friends who have a wild good time at the Essence Music Festival.
Tracy Oliver, who co-wrote the 2017 box-office hit, told Variety Studio during the Sundance Film Festival that a sequel is indeed happening.
Oliver could not share plot details because the film’s producer Will Packer “might kill me,” she said but noted that the production team is “looking to set it in Ghana.”
The first “Girls Trip” was a box office hit, grossing $140 million worldwide on a $16 million budget.
“I’m excited to see the girls again and to make something hopefully that the fans love,” Hall told PEOPLE about her co-stars. “I think the biggest thing is we had so much fun making the first one, and I just look forward to just having that kind of fun again and that audiences will hopefully love it as well.”
Packer shared an update about the “Girls Trip” sequel in an interview with “Good Morning America” back in January 2022.
“Can’t we all use a post-pandemic trip, my friend?” Packer said. “I think that the time is actually right, and this is something that I will tell you and break right now at GMA: the Girls Trip 2 sequel, we are underway. We are absolutely in the stages, the ladies are in, I just talked to the director.”
Meanwhile, some social media users have expressed their wish to NOT see Tiffany Haddish return for the sequel after she got caught up in a controversial child sexual grooming incident last year.
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