'The Hangover Part II' Writer Officially On Board To Complete the Trilogy

Director Todd Phillips said he always envisioned "The Hangover" as a trilogy, eh? Well when "The Hangover Part II" rages out of the gate to a record-setting, $205-million gross over a five-day opening weekend, who are Warner Bros. executives to argue?

Word from The Wrap and BadassDigest is that Warner Bros. has already secured "The Hangover Part II" co-writer Craig Mazin to start writing a third script to round out the series starring the hard-partying "Wolfpack" of Justin Bartha, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper.

It isn't like a third film hasn't crossed anybody's mind, either. Just last week, "The Hangover Part II" co-star Jamie Chung quipped that after Las Vegas and Bangkok, the most sensible city of sin to hit next would be Amsterdam. Bartha even added that shooting there would mean Galifianakis wouldn't be hard to find at all, come shooting.

Mazin, meanwhile, said he wants this to be the one that breaks formula.

"I think the third movie ends with Doug (Justin Bartha) staring at a row of crosses in a graveyard," he explained. "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."