Taking a stand for artistic integrity, director Todd Phillips has avowed that the forthcoming The Hangover Part III will be the franchise’s final chapter—despite Warner Bros.’ intimations that it could and should go on forever—and boldly refused to allow his creation to slip into formulaic repetition more than maybe two times at most. Phillips made the announcement while also revealing that the third and final film is scheduled for release on May 24, 2013, promising another Memorial Day weekend of America paying tribute to the concept of remembrance by ritualistically reliving 90 minutes of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis drifting through a montage of B-movie dangers and shit that happens to Ed Helms’ face. Or maybe not: Phillips also swears, “We're going to surprise a lot of people with the final chapter we have planned”—a shake-up that The Hollywood Reporter also hinted at when it noted that the next film will take place in Los Angeles and “deviate from the forgotten-debauchery formula of the first movies,” despite making a ton of money with that formula and still being called The Hangover.