The wait is now ogre!
It’s been made official that our favorite ogre and his friends are coming back to cinemas, with a reinvention. The movie is bound to be given a ‘different take’ compared to the four previous films.
According to MovieFone.com, screenwriter Michael McCullers has confirmed that the fifth installment of the Shrek movies is in the making, where he will be writing the screenplay.
He says, “Shrek 5‘ is being developed. I finished that script, which I really, really, really love. It’s really personal to me. It’s got a pretty big reinvention behind it that I guess I can’t really reveal (…) I imagine they’re particularly interested in it stepping up and actually figuring out the future of the franchise in that way on the corporate level.Â
“There’s been four movies and a lot of material, so the characters are pretty beloved and they’re great characters, but you also have to think of a pretty new take at that point.”
According to CinemaBlend, they have confirmed late last year that Eddie Murphy will return to reprise the voice of the energetic and loyal Donkey, who is protagonist Shrek’s best friend.
Murphy was remarkably impressed with the script. “The next ‘Shrek’ … I think Jeffrey Katzenberg (the film’s producer) told me 2019? 2019 or 2020, it will be ready. But they’ve got a good script, they wrote a nice good script.”
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