Coming Soon sprak onlangs met producent Craig Perry en vroeg hem hoe het is gesteld met American Pie 4. Het vervolg, dat geschreven en geregisseerd wordt door Jon Hurwitz en Hayden Schlossberg (de Harold & Kumar films), wordt geen reboot of remake. In plaats daarvan zal het een doodnormale sequel worden op American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001) en American Wedding (2003). De vier straight-to-dvd producties worden dus buiten beschouwing gehouden.

Perry zei het volgende:

"Like anything, if they're going to go back to it, they want to get it right. Hurwitz and Schlossberg, the guys who did 'Harold & Kumar' are going to direct and I'm hoping to have something to look at it in the New Year. We'll see when that fits in. As you can imagine, a lot of it has to do with scheduling of the actors because they're all busy. Alyson (Hannigan's) got the show and the baby, so she's got plenty on her plate, so there's a lot of people who have a lot of things to do, and I think if we get a script--which I think we will--that everybody is excited about it, and then it's going to be about the schedule, because it's going to be really hard to get that gang back together. Because I think that's one of the things - we want to get everybody back together then you've got to do it right."

Welke bekende gezichten zullen we precies terug zien keren in deel 4?

"I think that's part of the debate. For me, it makes sense to bring everybody back, because at a certain point, if you start winding it down, it isn't what it's meant to be, and I feel like those characters have become part of the cultural lexicon, you kind of know who they are, and I think there's an interest in seeing where they are, because they haven't been on screen for seven years. I think people will say, 'I wonder what happened to...' and I think that's a very effective way to back into this movie is having people wonder what did happen to those guys and what did happen to those girls, and I think that's part of the interest of it, because you know they're funny characters, you know they're likeable characters, but where are they now?"

Wordt de film toegespitst op het publiek dat de eerste drie films ook nog heeft meegekregen? Of is het meer bestemd voor de huidige generatie van 15 tot 20 jaar (die de originele trilogie wellicht gemist hebben)?

"I think everybody here grew up with those movies in their own special way, so why not see if we can tap into that? I think if the humor is such--which all of them can be consistent--the younger audience will at least understand that or understand why it's funny and go for it."