Six years after Psych ended its eight-season run on USA and three years after Psych: The Movie introduced again our favorites for a brand-new journey, Psych-Os are gearing as much as return to Santa Barbara as soon as extra in Psych 2: Lassie Come House.
The film sequel will discover James Roday and Dulé Hill reprising their roles as Shawn and Gus, respectively, together with a slew of different returning Psych favorites. And whereas Psych 2 is not the John Cena car it was originally intended to be, based mostly on every thing we already find out about Lassie Come House, we predict it is fairly protected to say that this follow-up movie truly sounds far more enjoyable than what creator Steve Franks had initially envisioned. (Not that we’d be mad at a Cena cameo in Lassie Come House.)
Take a look at every thing we all know to date about Psych 2: Lassie Come House beneath.
It will likely be out there at Peacock’s launch this summer season. Though the movie was initially speculated to premiere on USA within the winter of 2019, it was announced in September that Lassie Come House will now be debuting on NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service, Peacock, which soft-launched in April 2020 however will make its grand debut on July 15. Peacock has introduced that Psych 2 shall be one of many originals out there at launch, so Psych followers can lastly take a look at the film on the streaming service beginning Wednesday, July 15.
Timothy Omundson is again. When Psych: The Film was first introduced, Timothy Omundson, who performs Carlton Lassiter, was hospitalized after struggling a stroke. Consequently, Omundson wasn’t capable of return for a big position within the first film, though his character made a quick look when Juliet (Maggie Lawson) FaceTimed him. This time round, although, Lassie will characteristic prominently within the movie, which is, in fact, named after Omundson’s character.
The trailer is right here and it is good! Peacock debuted teasers for a number of of their upcoming titles in April, and that first take a look at Lassie Come House included every thing we needed — Lassiter’s return, Shawn’s nicknames for Gus, and possibly (or possibly not!) ghosts. Peacock subsequently debuted the complete trailer (above), and it is full of precisely the type of sight gags and buddy humor that we love about this world.
The primary 4 minutes are additionally out there to watch! If that trailer wasn’t sufficient for you, Peacock launched the primary 4 minutes of Lassie Come House on June 7. Within the clip, we’re launched to Lassiter’s dad (Joel McHale) and the seed of the brand new thriller: who shot Lassie and why?
The film shall be a nod to Hitchcock. The logline for the movie reveals that it will likely be “a classic Psych-style Hitchcockian nod” that may discover Lassiter having been ambushed on the job and left for useless. The occasion will immediate Shawn and Gus to return to Santa Barbara, the place Lassie has began to see unattainable occurrences taking place in his restoration clinic. “Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes discover themselves unwelcome of their outdated stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case with out the good thing about the police, their family members, or the standard sourdough bakeries of the Bay Space. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships ceaselessly,” the official description warns.
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The primary teaser for it would get you much more hyped. The primary promo for Lassie Come House, launched in June, options Roday and Hill getting followers primed for the sequel. “It is every thing you’re keen on, nothing you do not,” Roday advised the Psych-Os within the charming video.
There shall be a two-year time leap. Dulé Hill confirmed to TV Information the film won’t be picking up right where the last movie left off, with Shawn, Gus, and Ewan (Cena) getting caught up in a clandestine worldwide caper. “We proceed in actual time,” Hill mentioned, including that the sequel will fill in “precisely what has occurred over these previous two years we have not seen [the characters].”
All of your outdated favorites will return. Along with Roday, Hill, Omundson, and Lawson, Lassie Come House may also characteristic authentic Psych stars Kirsten Nelson as Karen Vick and Corbin Bernsen as Henry Spencer. Kurt Fuller may also reprise his position as Woody. The actor confirmed to TV Guide on the Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour that he’d seem, and it might be greater than a cameo. “Woody is throughout that film like sticky on rice!” he mentioned.
Mary Evenly may also be again. Jimmi Simpson shared a video on Twitter in April teasing his return as Mary Evenly. Since Mary was killed in Season 4, Psych has gotten fairly inventive on the subject of discovering intelligent methods to carry again the fan-favorite character — together with that memorable dream sequence from the primary film — and Simpson advised TV Information in June that his look in Lassie Comes House will not be any completely different.
Whereas Simpson could not say a lot, he did tease that this can be “the weirdest Mary state of affairs but” and that there shall be singing concerned as soon as extra. “Come on. I imply, we’re not assholes, James [Roday] and I. We all know how to do that,” he said.
Joel McHale has landed an important supporting position. In April 2019, Omundson revealed that Joel McHale shall be a “very particular visitor” within the sequel movie on Twitter. USA’s later put out a personality description for McHale’s position, sharing that he is “a mysterious character from Lassie’s previous.” However after greater than a yr of cryptic teases, we lastly do not must marvel any extra, for the reason that first 4 minutes of the movie (which have been launched early) reveal that McHale is taking part in Lassie’s father!
There shall be an all-star visitor forged. Roday’s A Million Little Things co-star Allison Miller joins as Maisie, an entrepreneur with a belief fund that results in a brand new concept each week. The most recent will impede Shawn and Gus’ investigation. Sarah Chalke will play Nurse Delores, Lassiter’s major caregiver. Kadeem Hardison joins the forged as Wilkerson, a affected person on the prestigious Herschel Home Restoration Heart whose situation has worsened since he arrived on the heart. Lastly, Richard Schiff will seem as Dr. Hirsch, the founding father of a high-end non-public medical restoration heart whose no-nonsense strategy causes a number of battle for Shawn and Gus.
Shawn and Juliet shall be having fun with married life. After attempting the knot within the first film, Shawn and Juliet will now being having fun with some well-deserved marital bliss within the sequel. “I really feel like for Shawn and Juliet there’s been, like, eight years of ‘will they, will not they.’ Then it was ‘they are going to,’ then there was like somewhat, ‘the place are we, what are we doing?’ … After which we hadn’t gotten married but. And now we’re married, and we’re simply, like, in!” Maggie Lawson told reporters in January. Whereas the pair’s completely different approaches to crime-solving may trigger minor conflicts within the upcoming movie, “for probably the most half, we’re simply having fun with married life immensely,” Lawson mentioned. “Yeah, we’re in bliss.”
There are probably extra sequels within the works. Creator Steve Franks revealed to revealed to TV Guide in 2017 that when he pitched the primary film, he already hoped to do an extra 5 movies. “I steered it proper in direction of doing one [movie], and I noticed by saying one thing again and again possibly I might discuss it into existence. So I assumed if I can discuss into existence one, possibly I can discuss into existence six,” Franks mentioned.
One can solely hope.
Psych: The Film 2 will debut on NBC’s streaming service Peacock on Wednesday, July 15.
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