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Tom Selleck, Ted Danson & Steve Guttenberg Reunite for Third 'Three Men and a Baby' Sequel

By: Nov. 03, 2009
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Reports are circulating that Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg will reuniting to costar in yet a third Three Men and a Baby sequel. 

Three Men and a Baby was released in 1987 starring the trio and directed by Leonard Nimoy in his first non-Star Trek movie directorial role. The film followed the mishaps and adventures of three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to pseudo-fatherhood with the arrival of one of the men's love child. The script for the film was based on the 1985 French movie Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Cradle). Three Men and a Baby was the biggest box office hit of that year, surpassing Fatal Attraction and eventually grossing $167 million in the United States alone. The movie won the 1988 ASCAP award and the 1988 People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Motion Picture. It was followed by the 1990 sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady, which, unlike its predecessor, was a box office bomb.

This third installment, Three Men and a Bride, is being developed by Disney,

Tom Selleck has appeared on Broadway in A Thousand Clowns. A screenwriter and film producer in addition to being an actor,  Selleck is best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I., and for his recurring role as Dr. Richard Burke in Friends.  He has additionally appeared in the television series Las Vegas, and can be seen most recently in the film Five Killers along with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher.

Steve Guttenberg has appeared on Broadway Prelude to a Kiss and in The Boys Next Door in the U.K.'s West End. He won kudos in the world stage premiere production of Furthest From the Sun, which Woody Harrelson directed and co-authored. His most notable films include Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby, Police Academy, and Short Circuit. His television films include the critically acclaimed Miracle on Ice (1981), To Race the Wind (1980), Something for Joey (1977) and the controversial nuclear holocaust picture, The Day After (1983), which more than 20 years after its original airing remains the highest-rated made-for-television movie in history. In 2008 Guttenberg was one of 12 contestants on the 6th season of Dancing with the Stars.

Ted Danson has appeared on Broadway in Status Quo Vadis.  Best known for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker, he is currently a regular on Larry David's HBO sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm and starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages. He also appears on a new HBO comedy series, Bored to Death, playing a supporting role, George. In his thirty-year career, Danson has been nominated for fourteen Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, winning two; ten Golden Globe Awards nominations, winning three; one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination; one American Comedy Award and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

 

 



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