Sorry, Twins fans, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito won’t be making that long-awaited sequel after all. “No, it’s not going to happen,” the action star says in a new cover story for Parade about the sequel to the hit comedy from 1988.
He says that plans changed after the original director Ivan Reitman died in his sleep in 2022. Reitman had also directed Schwarzenegger in the 1990 hit Kindergarten Cop. “When he died, his son Jason made it clear that he doesn’t like the idea and doesn’t want to do it,” he says. “The project was owned by the Reitmans.”
The movie Twins, which made more than $200 million around the world, starred Schwarzenegger and DeVito as two different people who were born from a genetic experiment. After being separated at birth, Julian (Schwarzenegger), who is physically perfect and innocent, searches for his long-lost twin brother, Vincent (DeVito), who turns out to be a small-time thief who likes to sleep with women. It was the first comedy for the star of The Terminator.
Julius and Vincent got married and had twins of their own at the end of the movie. Eddie Murphy was supposed to play the third brother in the sequel, which was at first going to be called Triplets. Murphy quit the project in 2021, and Tracy Morgan took over from that point on.
The sequel never happened, but Schwarzenegger and DeVito did work together again in the 1994 comedy Junior. It was also directed by Reitman and told the story of an Austrian researcher who agrees to have a baby with a man. DeVito was an OB-GYN in the movie. It was criticized in different ways and made $100 million.
But even though Triplets didn’t work out, Schwarzenegger says he and his longtime friend will soon work together on a new movie. “Somewhat like Triplets, but with a different story,” he says of the script that is being written for them both. “It will be a lot of fun and interesting. “Everyone will love it.”
