John Cho and I text about it all the time.
But for the 42-year-old actor, making the movie would need the cooperation of the franchise's entire original team, which can be tricky. While the franchise made healthy profits, it was never a giant money-spinner, so Penn's statement about a possible fourth movie finding a home on a streaming service makes sense.
Most notably, Neil Patrick Harris cameos in the series as a drugged-out horndog, and it was this performance that got him the role of Barney in How I Met Your Mother. The movies were memorable for their unique brand of stoner/racial humor, the fact that the two leads belonged to minority groups but without the usual stereotypes attached to Koreans and Indians, and the unexpected faces that popped up in those movies. The Harold and Kumar series followed the journey of two stoner friends, slacker Kumar Patel and the uptight Harold Lee, played by Kal Penn and John Cho, whose simple quests to go out to eat at a White Castle, or get a Christmas tree quickly snowball into outrageous journeys where they met a host of zany characters, causing plenty of destruction and confusion in their wake. "I feel like it's gotta be a streamer because people just love watching in the comfort of their own home on a Friday night at 2 a.m., which is more streaming 'binge-able' than it is going to the theater."
Recently, Penn spoke about a possible Harold and Kumar 4 to continue the franchise. But perhaps his most memorable work was as one of the leads in the stoner comedy series Harold and Kumar. Kal Penn has established a long and successful career in films, movies, education, and politics.