Eddie Murphy teases Shrek 5 release date and confirms Donkey spin-off movie
HUGE news!
Hold onto your hats people, because Shrek 5 is officially happening, a massive 14 years after the last instalment; Shrek Forever After. In even more exciting news, we may now also know when we can expect the film, after Eddie Murphy has been spilling the beans!
When is Shrek 5 out?
Speaking to Collider, Eddie Murphy, who voices the character of Donkey in the movies, confirmed filming started earlier this year, also adding there's going to be a separate Donkey movie for fans to look forward to.
He said: "We started doing Shrek 4 or 5 months ago.
"I recorded the first act and we'll be doing it this year, we'll finish it up. Shrek is coming out, and Donkey's gonna have his own movie. We're gonna do Donkey as well. So we're gonna do a Shrek, and we're doing a Donkey movie."
When Eddie was asked if the two movies were being made at the same time, he added: "No, not at the same time. I started recording Shrek, I think it's coming out in 2025, and we're doing a Donkey one next."
It was also rumoured back in November last year that the movie would land in 2025.
As reported by Mail Online, an intern at NBC Universal said that the highly-anticipated film would be hitting cinemas in 2025 in a now-deleted LinkedIn post. In the post, Shrek 5 was cited as one of the films that will be coming out that year.
Who is in the cast?
Illumination boss Chris Meledandri has previously spoken about the fifth movie, admitting he anticipates the original cast would return.
Speaking to Variety at an event to celebrate the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Chris said of Shrek 5: "It’s not that dissimilar to the process that we went through with Mario, where you look at what the core elements are that audiences have loved, and you do your very best to honour those core elements.
"And then you’re hard at work to build story elements and new characters that take you to brand new places. The original cast is a huge part of that."
He added: "We anticipate the cast coming back. Talks are starting now, and every indication that we’ve gotten is there’s tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of the actors to return."
As fans of the Shrek franchise will know, the movie featured a number of high profile actors, including Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey, and Cameron Diaz and Princess Fiona.
As well as the likes of Mike, Eddie and Cameron, other stars to voice characters in the movie include John Lithgow, Conrad Vernon, Christopher Knights, Antonio Banderas, and Walt Dohrn.
No casting has been confirmed just yet.
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When did Shrek come out?
Believe it or not, the first instalment of Shrek was released way back in 2001, loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.
How many Shrek movies are out?
Following the movie's mammoth success, Shrek 2 was released in 2004, with Shrek The Third landing in 2007. A special Christmas version of Shrek called Shrek The Halls also came out in 2007, before the release of the last movie; Shrek Forever After, in 2010.
BRB, just going to binge all four Shrek movies in excitement!
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