Rob Reiner opened up about whether he wanted to do a sequel to ‘When Harry Met Sally’ just months before he and his wife, Michele, were found dead
Rob Reiner looked back on his tremendous body of work and revealed if he had plans for a When Harry Met Sally sequel just two months before his death.
“No, I never wanted to do sequels. I don’t like them,” he told People in September when asked if he would ever consider a second installment of the rom-com. (The interview took place amid the release of his film Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the sequel to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap.)
“To me, [Spinal Tap II: The End Continues] is more of a, ‘Let’s see where they are now’ than it is a sequel,” Reiner explained. “I mean, listen, what kind of sequel do you have 41 years after the first? ‘Oh, we’re trading on it.’ It’s not that, like I said, it’s got to be a standalone. I try to figure out where is my mind at that point, and can I find a way to push my own mind and sensibility into whatever it is I’m trying to do? If I can figure out how to do that, I’ll make a film. I have one idea that I might try, but you have to enjoy the process.”
Rob and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood, California, home on Sunday, December 14, with apparent stab wounds.
