Warner Bros officially announce The Hangover Part III

File this under, “Well, duh.”

Warner Bros. Pictures has issued a press release officially announcing the production of The Hangover Part III. They’ve also set a release for the pic: May 24, 2013.

Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis will all return as “the Wolfpack” lacking the ability of recollection.

Todd Phillips will once again direct, and co-write the screenplay with Craig Mazin.

Phillips has described the final instalment as “a fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions.”

Galifiankis told Rolling Stone back in June of 2011 that Mazin hoped to end the franchise in a particularly dark manner:

“I think the third movie ends with Doug [Justin Bartha] staring at a row of crosses in a graveyard. It’s everyone – his wife, his family is dead, everybody from the first movie is dead. Somebody shows up and tells him his dog is dead.”

Shooting begins in September.

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