Shrek 5: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz returning for 2026 sequel | Movies

Shrek 5 is formally in improvement, with the franchise’s core voice solid – Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz – all confirmed to return.

DreamWorks Animation, the manufacturing firm behind all six movies within the Shrek franchise, confirmed the information on Wednesday, saying it might be launched on 1 July 2026.

The rambunctious ogre franchise started in 2001 with the primary Shrek movie, which turned a crucial and field workplace mega-phenomenon. When it premiered at Cannes, it turned the primary animated movie to compete for the celebrated Palme d’Or in additional than 5 a long time, and went on to grow to be the primary winner of the Oscar’s animated characteristic class.

Making $487m at worldwide cinemas, Shrek’s first outing turned DreamWorks – which had produced a gentle sequence of modest hits at that time, together with Rooster Run and Antz – right into a bona fide powerhouse. In 2020, Shrek was chosen for preservation within the Library of Congress’ Nationwide Movie Registry, reserved for movies of historic, cultural or aesthetic significance.

Shrek spawned three extra direct sequels: Shrek 2, which additionally premiered at Cannes and have become the franchise’s highest-grossing movie with virtually a billion-dollar international field workplace, in addition to Shrek the Third and Shrek Eternally After.

Later within the franchise got here 2011’s Puss in Boots – a spin-off centred round Antonio Banderas’s fiendish feline – and 2022 sequel Puss in Boots: The Final Want.

It’s unconfirmed as but whether or not Banderas has signed on for Shrek 5, now the seventh characteristic movie within the franchise.

In an interview final month, Murphy – who voices Donkey – hinted at forthcoming Shrek instalments, together with a Donkey spin-off.

“We began doing [Shrek 5] months in the past,” he instructed Collider. “I did this. I recorded the primary act, and we’ll be doing it this yr.”

Information of the Shrek sequel has swirled since at the very least 2018, when experiences emerged that Common, DreamWorks’ mother or father firm, had approached Chris Meledandri – the animation govt behind Despicable Me – to discover a new method into the franchise.

“Whenever you look again on these vocal performances they’re superior … I discover myself responding to my very own nostalgic emotions of wanting to return to these characterisations,” Meledandri mentioned on the time. “The problem for us has been to seek out one thing that actually does really feel prefer it’s not merely one more movie in a sequence of sequels.