Paramount+ is welcoming hungry followers again to Good Burger, residence of the Good Burger, after greater than 20 years.
Nickelodeon Studios has formally greenlit Good Burger 2, a sequel to the 1997 movie which starred Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell as a pair of semi-competent quick meals workers. The announcement was made on Friday throughout Thompson and Mitchell’s look on The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon.
On this long-awaited sequel, Dexter Reed (Thompson) and Ed (Mitchell) will “reunite within the current day at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of workers,” per the official description. Extra particularly, “Dexter is down on his luck after one other one in every of his innovations fails, so Ed welcomes Dex again to Good Burger with open arms and provides him his outdated job again. With a brand new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get again on his ft however sadly places the destiny of Good Burger in danger as soon as once more.”
Manufacturing on Good Burger 2 begins in Might. The film is predicted to debut on Paramount+ later this yr.
“I can’t consider it’s been a bit over 25 years since nice customer support was born at Good Burger!” Thompson says. “Being part of one thing so many generations of individuals have come to like has made me so proud and now to be again the place all of it started engaged on the sequel is surreal! Love performing with my brother Kel and may’t wait to indicate the followers what these characters have been as much as since we final noticed them.”
Provides Mitchell, “Ed is a type of timeless characters that has introduced a lot pleasure and laughter to followers, and it’s such a ravishing blessing to nonetheless be doing it in spite of everything these years. It’s tremendous superior to come back again and proceed the tales of Dex, Ed and Good Burger for each the individuals who grew up watching and their youngsters.”
The Good Burger franchise was born of Nickelodeon’s All That, the place it started as a recurring sketch in 1994. Thompson and Mitchell have reprised their roles a handful of instances in recent times, together with a 2015 sketch on The Tonight Present and a 2022 sketch on Saturday Evening Stay.
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