Anna Daniels
As recently as January 2019, Steve-O went on record saying that he believed that Jackass 4 would never happen. “The short answer is that Knoxville is not interested in doing that,” he said during a conversation with Loudwire. “He wanted to sort of keep the legacy intact, and I can’t really argue with it.” Just six months later, though, in July of that year, Steve-O and Chris Raab — better known to fans of the series as Raab Himself — gave us a harbinger of the news to come. “Everyone’s pretty interested in it,” Raab said while hosting Steve-O on his podcast, and this time, Steve agreed. “We’re approaching the 20-year anniversary of when ‘Jackass’ first came out on MTV,” he said. “I do know that there’s an urge, an idea to commemorate that anniversary in some way. It could be small; it could be big. I don’t know what’s going to happen.” (via Philly Voice)
Amazingly, by the end of the year, we’d gone from “never gonna happen” to “okay, it’s happening.” We even have a release date: Paramount Pictures, which distributed the first three flicks, has slated Jackass 4 for release on March 5, 2021. (via Entertainment Weekly) Will all of the old crew be lining up to potentially inflict life-threatening injuries upon themselves, consume things that would make a billy goat back away in disgust, and shove foreign objects into unmentionable areas? About that, we’re not sure.
Written by: Looper
