In today’s news that I’m almost positive you didn’t see coming, Deadline has revealed that Rob Schneider is developing a sequel to The Animal for Tubi.
The original film was released over twenty years ago and found Rob Scheider playing Marvin Mange, a police station evidence clerk who is critically injured and put back together by a mad scientist who gives him animal parts in a transplant procedure, resulting in strange changes to his behaviour. The Animal sequel will once again star Rob Scheider as Marvin, who is now an old dog who needs to learn new tricks as he hunts down a new uber-animal with powers far beyond his own. Deadline hears that Marvin will get into yet another accident and will have to be put together yet again with new animal parts. In addition to starring in the sequel, Rob Schneider will also direct, produce, and co-write the script with Patricia Schneider and Jamie Lissow. Production on The Animal 2 is expected to kick off early next year and will debut on Tubi later in 2023. David Manning is going to be thrilled.
The Animal received largely negative reviews upon its release in 2001 and went on to gross nearly $85 million worldwide on a $47 million budget. After memorable cameos in a handful of Adam Sandler movies, Rob Schneider went on to star in his own comedies, including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick, The Benchwarmers, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, and, of course, The Animal.
Are you game for a sequel to The Animal?