`Harold & Kumar` to return on the big screen

New York: Popular comedy franchise `Harold & Kumar` starring Indo-American actor Kal Penn, is set for a comeback on the big screen with the movie `A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas`. Penn, after spending a year working as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement is set to return to cinemas as `Kumar` in the third Harold & Kumar

movie, Deadline New York reported. His co-star John Cho who portrays `Harold` will be stepping off the bridge of the Enterprise to join him. Although the story of the film is still not out, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg who wrote the previous two films `Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle` (2004) and directed `Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay` (2008), will be working as writers and directors this time although there is a probability that movie bosses New Line are "about to hire" a director. Shooting for the film will start in this summer after Penn completes his work at the White House. Penn had accepted the job in April 2009 and when asked if his new job would mean no more Harold and Kumar films, he had said, "That`s probably true for now". PTI