Seven years after the household bought collectively once more, the solid of My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony will collect as soon as once more for a 3rd movie, which is ready to launch worldwide on September 8, 2023.
The extremely anticipated third movie within the sequence is written and directed by Nia Vardalos, who wrote and starred in each unique movies. Vardalos returns to star within the third movie, alongside a bevy of different returning stars from the unique movies, together with John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Maria Vacratsis, Andrea Martin, Elias Kavacas, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone and Melina Kotselou.
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and Gary Goetzman — who’ve been producers on the previous two tasks — return to provide the third movie as properly. In an announcement on the third movie, Vardalos thanked the trio of producers for “taking an opportunity” on her, and known as the movie a “household reunion.”
“The candy friendship which bloomed from the producers’ first taking an opportunity on me then grew into a stupendous relationship as they entrusted me to direct this installment of our franchise,” stated Vardalos. “We filmed our household reunion fully in Greece which was thrilling for us all. Plus, we ate without cost.”
Rita Wilson added that “it’s thrilling to have Nia Vardalos, Academy Award nominated author, not solely in entrance of the digicam as our star but additionally behind the digicam as our director, guiding our beloved solid for this third movie shot on location in Greece. My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony has introduced audiences pleasure for twenty-one years. I’m so completely happy that extra pleasure is on the best way.”
Initially starting in 2002 with its first movie, My Large Fats Greek Wedding ceremony informed the story of a middle-class Greek American lady who fell in love with a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant man. The movie was a smash hit, incomes greater than $368 million on the field workplace and being nominated for an Academy Award for Greatest Authentic Screenplay.
A sequel was made in 2014, which noticed the household coping with the recession of the mid-2010s, and was a field workplace success, however was not reviewed as extremely as the primary.