The film’s producers, along with Dimension Films and Miramix have hired two writers to draft two different scripts for a sequel. The writers are Johnny Rosenthal, whose million-dollar script Iron Jack has been stuck in development since 2009, and Dirty Grandpa writer John Phillips. The idea is to use one for Bad Santa 2 and maybe the other for a third film. I like to imagine that they are bitter rivals working on their scripts in the same coffee shop. Casting one another icy glares and putting laxatives in one another’s lattes when the opportunity arises. May the best man win!! (LA Times)

But enough speculating. Universal has bought the script Dirty Grandpa from Upright Citizens Brigade comedian Phillips. The story “centers on a recently widowed man who gets to know his grandson better while the grandson is about to marry the wrong girl.” Who will play the recently widowed man? The grandson? The wrong girl who will almost certainly not be married by the film’s end? Sorry, no stars or director are attached yet. However, we do know the often less-exciting role of producer will go to Barry Josephson (Enchanted). (Collider, Variety)