Fox Searchlight has announced that Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Night, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup and Penelope Wilton will be making a return trip to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2. And this time around Richard Gere, David Strathairn and Tamsin Greig will be joining in the fun.
Fox Searchlight Pictures President of Production Claudia Lewis announced today that production has officially started in India. John Madden has returned to direct the follow-up to the international hit. The original film was released in Spring 2012 to record-breaking business in both the United Kingdom and the United States, earning more than $135 million at the worldwide box-office.
The film marks the first ever sequel to be released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, a studio that has seen amazing success with such films as Kimberly Perice's Boys Don't Cry, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, Jared Hess' Napoleon Dynamite, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine, Jason Reitman's Juno, Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and this year's award season favorite, Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave.
A release date has not yet been announced.
