“It was, ‘I should be a triplet, that could be a very funny comedy.’ We started a script with Eddie, and after the success he had with Amazon Prime on ‘Coming 2 America,’ he got himself booked up heavily. “‘Twins’ was quite successful, and some years after, this whole thing started with Arnold meeting Eddie Murphy, and the suggestion came from one of them,” Ivan Reitman told Deadline in 2021. But by 2021, the project had shifted: Tracy Morgan was set to replace Murphy, who left due to scheduling issues, while Ivan Reitman now planned on directing the film Schwarzenegger was still talking publicly about “Triplets” with Murphy as recently as 2018. Ivan Reitman was attached as a producer at the time. “The story would see Schwarzenegger and DeVito as brothers Julius and Vincent, conceived experimentally, who discover they have a third sibling,” THR suggested. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter revealed “Triplets” would happen with Eddie Murphy joining the two stars. The film didn’t spawn an initial sequel but did lead to numerous other hits for the trio, including 1990’s “Kindergarten Cop” (which Schwarzenegger made with Reitman) and 1994’s “Junior” (which brought all three men back together).Ī “Twins” sequel never materialized, but it did come close. Released in 1988, “Twins” was a big hit for Schwarzenegger, DeVito, and Ivan Reitman, grossing more than $216 million worldwide.
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