Kristen Wiig Shoots Down 'Bridesmaids' Sequel

Depending upon whether one looks from the outside and sees a half-full glass or one half-empty, Kristen Wiig should be either commended for some artistic honesty and integrity or cited for temporary professional insanity.

"Bridesmaids," last year's hit road-to-the-altar comedy that Wiig not only co-starred in but co-wrote with Annie Mumolo, has so far raked upward of $288 million globally. Numbers like that often signal "break-out franchise" and have a sequel green-lit before a studio can contract out designing the DVD/Blu-ray cover art.

All that being acknowledged as major studio modus operandi, Wiig has made it known that she won't be penning a sequel, as told by The Hollywood Reporter. Entertainment Weekly in short order picked up the trail of Wiig's negativity toward franchising the hit comedy and while Wiig's representatives didn't provide EW.com with any comment, a Universal Studios representative told EW that they would reach out to "Bridesmaids" producer Judd Apatow to concoct a sequel approach if Wiig couldn't be brought on-board.

Apatow told EW "Coming from TV, I always want to see the sequel. I wish there were eighty 'Superbads.' The key is we have to come up with an idea that is as good or better than the first one. We don't want to do it unless it can be great. I don't think anyone has had the brain space to think about it yet. Hopefully that can begin this year."

It's a query EW had already posed to Wiig last fall. Wiig answered that there was a sequel premise perhaps buried within a vacation-gone-awry "Bridesmaids" outtake, but it doesn't sound like one Wiig exactly favors.

"In one of the outtakes," Wiig said, "Megan, Melissa [McCarthy's] character, wanted us to go on the Nevada Project. It's kind of this horrible outdoor survival thing, and she improvised all these horrible things that would happen to you on this trip. Like you're blindfolded and left outside for days and days, and it's supposed to be this bonding experience . . .

"That's a terrible idea," Wiig concluded. "That won't happen. That's not even funny."

Around the film's release last May, director Paul Feig didn't yet sound completely against a sequel.

"It would be very tempting," Feig said. "We'd just have to come up with a great idea that just didn't feel like we were rehashing, which is you're always in the danger area when you get to a sequel."

What say you, readers? With Universal so franchise-hungry, is Wiig turning down the chance to name her price to develop a sequel? Or is this a rare instance of showing creative integrity and knowing when enough is "enough" without a second installment?