"Hangover" Sequel In The Works. "Overdose" Expected Out In Time For Christmas

OVERDOSE: THE COMEDY

Already with hundreds of millions in the bank, producers are putting finishing touches on the followup of the surprise hit film based on a wild night of drinking and drugging bachelor party in Las Vegas.

The four-letter crammed Hangover is crowded with a cornucopia of near death consequences from a single, drug-induced evening that results in hysterical mayhem including severe sunburn poisoning, brutal nausea, drug overdose, infant abandonment, racist performances, police-generated child-tasering and brutal elderly rear nudity. In the end, no one really gets hurt and everyone is better off for the experience.

"Admit it, American audiences can't get enough of humorously risky lifestyles," said producer/director Todd Phillips. "Especially teens who are searching for role-models like Alan (ZACH GALIFIANAKIS), who as a lovable psychotic, proves that good manners and sanity are a real obstacle to plain, good, dangerous behavior. Overdose will make Hangover look like a simple aneurism."

While Hangover is a comedy about a bachelor party gone wrong, Overdose will be about the honeymoon gone very, very wrong.

"We haven't even scraped the bad taste surface," said Phillips. "The ramifications of drugs, over-drinking and untreated psychological problems can be really, really funny and there's no reason why following those obsessions to their logical payoff - miserable lives and unnecessary death - can't be hilarious. Tell me a good-solid life-threatening STD won't have the kids rolling in the aisles."

Overdose will follow groom Doug (JUSTIN BARTHA), the only returning cast member, on his honeymoon to Iran, where his friends Phil and Stu (TOM SIZEMORE and DANNY BONADUCE) tag along with new brother-in-law, Alan (JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME), as the four friends shoot up Iranian heroin, interfere with election riots, mistake a Mullah for Willie Nelson and then - oops - mistakenly behead Doug's new bride.

Phillips says audiences can look for "water-boarding, roofie-influenced rape" and "don't blink or you'll miss the Alan's zany suicide-bombing wipe out of an orphanage." After which...hilarity ensues.

Developing.

Award-winning TV writer Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" www.greatfailure.com and blogs at the appropriately-named SteveYoungonPolitics.com