Although Jack Nicholson has enjoyed a 15-year hiatus from the big screen, frequent collaborator James L. Brooks anticipates a return for the actor.

The As Good As It Gets co-writer/director recently teased that the 3x Oscar-winning “greatest actor of the generation” is preparing to make an onscreen comeback, following a cameo in the Studio 8H audience of SNL50: The Anniversary Special back in February.

“Oh, I don’t think he stopped,” Brooks told People . “I mean, he’s gotten scripts, he’s reading them, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing them.”

Nicholson’s last movie role was in Brooks’ 2010 romantic-comedy How Do You Know , co-starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson.

The pair previously collaborated on the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (19

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