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Seize your torch and pitchforks! Everybody’s favourite ogre is heading again to city, with the the newest film within the “Shrek” franchise set for launch in mid-2026.
Film studio Dreamworks Animation confirmed in a post on X that “Shrek 5” will hit the large display screen on July 1, 2026 – 16 years after the earlier episode was launched.
The large stars have already signed up once more, based on the submit – Mike Myers will voice the eponymous ogre, Cameron Diaz will return as Princess Fiona and Eddie Murphy will reprise his function because the irrepressible Donkey.
The film will likely be directed by Walt Dohrn (“Trolls”) and Brad Ableson (“Minions: The Rise of Gru”), and written by Michael McCullers and Christopher Meledandri.
The primary “Shrek” film was a smash hit when it was launched in 2001, spawning sequels “Shrek 2” in 2004, “Shrek the Third” in 2007 and “Shrek Ceaselessly After” in 2010.
There was additionally a by-product “Puss in Boots” film that includes the outlaw cat voiced by Antonio Banderas, launched in 2011, with a sequel – “Puss in Boots: The Final Want” – launched in 2022.
It has not but been confirmed whether or not Banderas will likely be concerned in “Shrek 5.”
Murphy leaked the information of his personal involvement in an interview with business publication Collider in June, and in addition mentioned that Donkey will get his personal spinoff film.
The franchise has turn out to be a cultural phenomenon, to the extent that shoe model Crocs launched a Shrek Croc in 2023 and a recreation of Shrek’s swamp home was listed for lease on Airbnb final September.