I read a few days ago that Tara Reid said that a Big Lebowski sequel was coming out and that she was attached. (She had a minor role in the original 1998 movie.) I told my husband about it as he’s a huge fan of The Dude, and he was happy to hear that it was in the works. Alas, the film’s creators, the infamous Coen brothers, said they don’t have any plans to make a sequel but they’ll “Watch it when it comes out. Especially if Tara’s in it.” It’s enough to make you feel sorry for Tara, whose rep tried to explain that she heard Jeff Bridges say another Lebowski film was coming – only Bridges never said that.

In the mid-to-late-90’s, Tara Reid made her name playing dumb blondes. If she has any complaints about type casting, this may not help.

Speaking at a Comedy Club benefit show, Reid gave an interviewer some updates about her career, including one very curious coming attraction:

“I have a movie coming out called ‘The Fields,'” she said. “I have another one coming out that I produced with my brother, called ‘The Irishman.’ And we’ll be doing ‘American Pie 4’ this year and ‘Big Lebowski 2’ this year.”

‘Lebowski’ writers and directors Joel and Ethan Coen sometimes work in mysterious ways, but there had never been any mention about definitely doing a follow up to their 1998 cult hit with Jeff Bridges, even as they promoted their new, Oscar-nominated film with The Dude himself, ‘True Grit.’ So what did they have to say when they heard Tara’s news?

“I’m glad she’s working on it,” Ethan laughed in an interview with Austin360.com. But do he and his brother have plans to work on it? “Well, we don’t but we’ll watch it when it comes out,” he said. Joel added, “Especially if Tara’s in it.”

For her part, Reid’s reps wrote to Entertainment Weekly, saying, “She heard Jeff Bridges say that he wanted to make ‘Big Lebowski 2’ and have all the original cast members in it, so she may have misspoke, thinking that included her based on what Jeff said.”

Perhaps she was referring to a July interview in which Bridges said that he and the Coens had spoken about it, but nothing was planned.

[From Huffington Post]

American Pie 4. I thought that franchise died with that American Wedding threequel in 2003, but I guess that was wishful thinking. (There’s also the even worse Band Camp spinoffs, with four direct–to–DVD movies with a new cast.) Given Tara’s record of thinking every successful film she had a bit part in is coming back, she could be incorrect. Sadly, IMDB does have a listing for this trainwreck, due out in 2012 and also starring Alyson Hannigan (she can do better!) and Chris Owen, that evil-looking kid who was in the other American Pie movies. Jason Biggs isn’t listed on IMDB for the film, which surprises me because it’s not like he’s doing anything else. Wikipedia has him starring in it, though.

The next time Tara has to inflate her project schedule she should just come up with random movies no one has heard about. It must have been a tough few years for her. IMDB has no credits for her in 2008 or 2009 and the last film she did was something in 2008 called Vipers. Check out the DVD cover.

Here’s Tara out at Paris Fashion week with her boyfriend, Michael Lillelund, on 1/26/11 and at a Golden Globe viewing party on 1/17/11. She was invited to fashion week? Also, does her boyfriend look straight to you? Maybe he’s just very pretty. Credit: WENN and Fame Pictures