The director of the comedy The Hangover has plenty of work lined up.

Todd Phillips will next direct the road trip comedy “Due Date” and follow one year later with “The Hangover 2.”

Galifianakis will play one of the two leads in “Due Date,” an Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland script that was revised by Adam Sztykiel. In the comedy about fatherhood, an expectant dad and his unlikely travel companion (Galifianakis) race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.

Both “Due Date” and “The Hangover 2″ will follow the same production track as “The Hangover.” The plan is for the “Due Date” shoot to begin Oct. 6, and the film will be released next year in the first weekend of June, just like “The Hangover.” The sequel will begin production in October 2010 and will be released Memorial Day weekend 2011.

I spent some days on the set of The Hangover, Phillips is a perfectionist, as many good directors are. I expect his next two films will be on par with his previous work, he has time to work it all out.

Source: Variety

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