Will the Wolfpack be back for The Hangover Part III?

Superficially, THE HANGOVER PART II seems to be relocating the rambunctious bachelor party boys to a new city, while simultaneously revisiting pretty much everything else about the first movie (check the trailer comparison below for some pretty glaring evidence of the “If it ain’t broke” theory in action).

Still, director Todd Phillips isn’t planning to thrice tread the same coincidental memory loss concept if he gets the very probable opportunity to make THE HANGOVER PART III.  

“If we were to do a third one,” Phillips said at a recent press conference for the sequel, “if the audience…if the desire was there…I think we have a clear idea where that would head and it’s certainly not in the same template you’ve seen these movies and obviously we always envisioned it as a trilogy as you can imagine (lot’s of laughter), the third would very much a finale and an ending.”

“The most I could say about it and I haven’t discussed it with [the HANGOVER actors] is that it is not following that template but very much a new idea. As far as where it takes place…I’m very open like the Olympic committee to being pitched and presented cities…flown around with wine and women and bribed and then I will make my decision.”