There has been much news about the pending third installment in the ‘Meet the Parents’ franchise. Talk is centering around who is returning for the project — which will be titled ‘Little Fockers’ and involve five-year-old Focker twins — and who is joining anew.

Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson and Robert DeNiro are coming back. Jessica Alba, Harvey Keitel and Laura Dern are coming in. Barbra Streisand’s return as Roz Focker, the sex therapist mother of Ben Stiller’s character Gaylord, seems certain. But Dustin Hoffman reprising his role as Roz’s husband Bernie is looking increasingly unlikely.

EW.com reports that there has been strife between Hoffman and the studio over the size of the part, the scheduling of the days on set and other difficulties.

Sources told the entertainment magazine that Hoffman had tentatively agreed to appear in what was to be a “very funny cameo” at the end of the film but that seems to have now fallen apart, due to either salary or scheduling issues, or both.

Hoffman is reportedly working on the film adaptation of the Mordechai Richler novel, ‘Barney’s Version’ — currently in production — in which he plays Barney’s father Izzy.

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