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Grab your torch and pitchforks! Each person’s popular ogre is heading support to metropolis, with the the most recent film within the “Shrek” franchise feature for launch in mid-2026.
Movie studio Dreamworks Animation confirmed in a put up on X that “Shrek 5” will hit the mighty disguise on July 1, 2026 – 16 years after the outdated episode was as soon as launched.
The mighty stars obtain already signed up over again, in accordance with the put up – Mike Myers will articulate the eponymous ogre, Cameron Diaz will return as Princess Fiona and Eddie Murphy will reprise his feature because the irrepressible Donkey.
The film will likely be directed by Walt Dohrn (“Trolls”) and Brad Ableson (“Minions: The Upward push of Gru”), and written by Michael McCullers and Christopher Meledandri.
The main “Shrek” film was as soon as a break hit when it was as soon as launched in 2001, spawning sequels “Shrek 2” in 2004, “Shrek the Third” in 2007 and “Shrek Forever After” in 2010.
There was as soon as furthermore a derivative “Puss in Boots” film that contains the outlaw cat voiced by Antonio Banderas, launched in 2011, with a sequel – “Puss in Boots: The Closing Need” – launched in 2022.
It has not but been confirmed whether or not Banderas will likely be focused on “Shrek 5.”
Murphy leaked the tips of his bear involvement in an interview with business e-newsletter Collider in June, and furthermore mentioned that Donkey will rep his bear spinoff film.
The franchise has change into a cultural phenomenon, to the extent that shoe price Crocs launched a Shrek Croc in 2023 and a recreation of Shrek’s swamp home was as soon as listed for hire on Airbnb final September.
