Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is a 2015 satirical comedy television series written by David Wain and Michael Showalter, and directed by Wain. The eight-episode Netflix series is a prequel to Wain's 2001 film of the same name. The series will launch on July 31, 2015.^[1]

Cast

Production

Wain has suggested that there may be a prequel to Wet Hot American Summer. The film would be set earlier in that same summer, and part of the joke would be that the cast, who were ten years too old to be playing their parts, would now be playing younger versions of those same roles, but this time be twenty years too old. The film would star the same cast from the original.^[3] On February 23, 2012, Paul Rudd mentioned to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show that there were indeed talks about a possible prequel and that it was currently being written.^[4]

Wain has confirmed a sequel, with all of the original cast returning.^[5]

In May 2014, Variety reported that the prequel idea was to be turned into a ten-episode miniseries on Netflix, with Showalter and Wain serving as executive producers. ^[6]

On January 9, 2015, Deadline.com reported that an eight-episode miniseries based on the film had begun shooting for release on Netflix. Almost the entire cast of the original film will be returning, along with Showalter and Wain.^[7] Several days later, the series' official Twitter account tweeted an image of the film's logo, with the words "First Day of Camp" written underneath it, implying that it will follow Wain's original plan for a prequel.^[8]

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