I loved these guys back in the day! But is their "reefer" humor really gonna sell 2day? Read this...


Cheech & Chong High on Reunion!
By Josh Grossberg

Cheech and Chong are ready to light up the big screen again.

Twenty-five years after their first celluloid toke, the professional stoners otherwise known as Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are hashing out what will be a happily hazy reunion movie, tentatively titled Cheech & Chong Get Blunt.


That's the word from Tommy's daughter, actress Rae Dawn Chong, who wrote the script and is currently shopping the project to distributors.


"My sister and I...get a lot of phone calls individually and collectively about a reunion. So at Thanksgiving this year, we said, 'Dad, are you doing to do anything about that?' And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on," Chong tells E! Online. "So when we left, my sister and I thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script."


The screenplay must have been good stuff, because both Chong and his formerly estranged comic partner Marin signed on.


The pot, er, plot for Blunt, which will be Cheech and Chong's first major outing together since 1985's music-video compilation Get Out of My Room, follows our leafy heroes as they serve community service as anti-drug preachers in a boys' home. Expect plenty of their trademark stoner musings.


Rae Dawn Chong says her childhood memories on the sets of such Cheech and Chong cannabis-flavored classics as 1978's Up in Smoke, 1980's Next Movie, 1981's Nice Dreams and 1983's Still Smokin' inspired her to take a crack at writing one herself.


"A script idea came together--with a beginning, middle and end--from the drive up to Vancouver that was socially relevant and funny, so I wrote it," recalls Rae Dawn Chong, who appeared in the comic duo's last movie, 1984's swashbuckling spoof Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers.


"I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them," says the actress.


Cheech and Chong had a falling out in the mid-'80s blamed on the usual creative differences. Chong continued to carry the Mary Jane mantle, appearing in 1998's Half-Baked, landing a recurring role on Fox's That '70s Show and writing and directing the forthcoming pot caper Best Buds.


Marin, on the other hand, has staked out a career as a (sober) character actor, appearing in films like Ghostbusters II, Desperado, Tin Cup and Spy Kids, as well as costarring with Don Johnson on the TV series Nash Bridges. He's also cultivated some family-friendly voice-over work, including paying lip service to Banzai the Hyena in Disney's The Lion King.


Despite their on-screen split, the two remained pals, with Cheech popping up in a cameo in Chong's 1990 film, Far Out Man, and the latter turning up on Nash Bridges a few seasons ago. The two also had voice roles in 1992's animated FernGully: The Last Rainforest.


Rae Dawn Chong, best known for playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1985's Commando, smooching C. Thomas Howell in 1986's Soul Man and appearing on such TV series as Judging Amy, says the timing is right for a reunion movie, especially with Canada's current push to decriminalize pot and several states permitting medical marijuana use.


That certainly would make her father--whom she dubs the "patron saint of marijuana use"--very happy. When not making stoner comedies, the elder Chong is selling glass accoutrements of the hippie kind on his Website, Chongglass.com.


Far out, indeed.

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Okay... I'm ready 2 watch this shit again!

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responsibilty's a heavy responsibility, man...

yay, reunion!!!

I will watch a new movie if they make one...