Jon Hamm Faces Major Career Setback

‘Mad Men’ actor Jon Hamm has encountered a significant downturn in his career as there will not be a sequel to his acclaimed comedy-mystery, *Confess, Fletch*.

On X (formerly Twitter), *Confess, Fletch* writer-director Greg Mottola (*Superbad*, *Adventureland*) shared the unfortunate update. Responding to a fan query about the sequel, he revealed, “Alas, the new head of Miramax, who controls the rights to all the books, shot down my sequel project. The Fletch curse got me.”

*Confess, Fletch* was released in 2022, breathing new life into the iconic novel-turned-movie franchise that began in the ’80s with Chevy Chase starring as Fletch. The film follows ex-investigative reporter Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher, played by Hamm, as he strives to clear his name from a murder accusation while also chasing down an art thief. Besides Hamm, the movie features Roy Wood Jr., Annie Mumolo, Lorenza Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, John Slattery, Ayden Mayeri, and Marcia Gay Harden.

In a conversation with PopCulture.com in 2022, Mottola discussed his approach to adapting the narrative beyond the previous *Fletch* films and the original novels written by Gregory Mcdonald. “I think in my mind the events of the original film happened to this Fletch in their own way,” Mottola explained.

He elaborated, “The time period is different and everything, but interestingly in the second book, Gregory Mcdonald made Fletch already having retired from investigative reporting, which worked for our purposes, that he’s out of it and he kind of gets pulled back into it, or form of it. So yes, I think all those events took place.”

Source: PopCulture.com, X/ Twitter