‘Always Be My Maybe’ Director Nahnatchka Khan Already Has Ideas for a Sequel

The only complaint I have about Always Be My Maybe, that new Ali Wong and Randall Park romantic comedy on Netflix you’ve been hearing so much about, is that there’s not more of it. Based on all your thirsty gifs of Park and Keanu Reeves, I’m guessing most of you feel the same way.

So when director Nahnatchka Khan told me that she wants to do a sequel, my only question was: Why is that film not greenlit yet?

“I mean listen,” Khan said in a phone call with Decider, “if Ali and Randall [who co-wrote the screenplay] know what they want to do for the sequel—and they want to do it—I would work with them again in a second.”

The director, who also created Fresh Off the Boat and Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23, even had an idea for a title and plot: “We were all saying we could go back to the original Mariah Carey title and have it be Always Be My Baby and see what happened.” (She elaborated that Wong and Park’s characters could have a baby together, in an interview with IndieWire.)

To Decider, she added that so far, these sequel discussions haven’t been too-too serious.

“But,” she went on, “the response has been so amazing, so I’m sure it’s going to come up in earnest soon. But it’s really up to those guys. I would love to work with them in any capacity, for the rest of my life.”

So: Netflix, Wong, Park—what more do you need? The film has a 90 percent certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and while Netflix doesn’t release viewership data, I think it’s safe to say a lot of people watch this film based on the sheer number of tweets on my timeline. Godzilla: King of Monsters was greenlit by Warner Bros. on the opening weekend of 2014’s Godzilla, so don’t tell me it’s too soon. Get on it!

Stream Always Be My Maybe on Netflix