Martin Lawrence is going to don the fat suit anew in a third installment of Big Momma’s House. We get the following scoop from our friends at IESB:

IESB’s Robert Sanchez attended the SOUL MEN press day in Beverly Hills today and talked with producer David Friendly. Friendly says that Big Momma’s House 3 is still in the works (it was rumored to be ready for 2008). He says it’s currently in the script writing stage and will hopefully be ready for 2009 release. Big Momma’s House (2000) and Big Momma’s House 2 (2006) starred Martin Lawrence as an undercover FBI agent using a fat suit to impersonate a Southern granny.

Martin Lawrence comedies are peculiar train-wrecks that I try my best to avoid. I have tried to watch a few films of his and always leave the experience confused. I just don’t find them funny, which is too bad because some of the premises are absolutely outlandish.

An FBI agent that does his investigating in drag and in a fat suit, is a stand alone film material. Somehow Lawrence has managed to make this into a trilogy, and again although I have never watched any of these films; morbid curiosity may one day get the better of me.

If anyone could star in a buddy cop movie where his partner is a drug sniffing Mallard duck, it would be Martin Lawrence.