Did you also forget that Mike Epps was in The Hangover? Yeah, that semi-big role kind of slipped my mind, too.

Here’s your reminder: Variety now reports that Epps — who, by the way, you might remember as Black Doug in the first (i.e., good) film — is likely to return for the final installment of what never should have been a series. Well, the use of the term “likely” is a bit silly; the script obviously contains his character, they don’t want to recast it, and I doubt Epps has much reason to simply turn down the role. As someone who found his character (or what I can remember of it) fairly amusing, this particular news is perfectly easy to digest. The movie itself is something I could give or take at the moment.

Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis are all returning for The Hangover Part III, which will open on May 24th, 2013.

Further down the sequel line, Variety also informs us that Neal McDonough has eyed a project which, shockingly, is not set in World War II — though it might still require him to fire a gun. The character actor is trying to make a deal for Red 2, the follow-up to 2010′s action hit which would see the return of Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Mary-Louise Parker; Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones are some of the series’ newcomers.

While the report does not stipulate who McDonough might play, we’ve at least been told, time and time again, that Jon and Erich Hoeber‘s screenplay will see the team head to Europe in hopes of obtaining a device created by the scientist Edward Bailey (Hopkins). Before they can do that, he has to be retrieved; that’s where the fun (presumably) kicks in.

Red 2 opens on August 2nd, 2013.

Are these sequels helping themselves by bringing back familiar faces and grabbing new ones?