{"id":602381,"date":"2026-05-25T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602381\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:37:11","slug":"a-sixth-shrek-is-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602381\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sixth &#8220;Shrek&#8221; Is In Development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-sixth-shrek-is-in-development.jpg\" data-caption=\"Dreamworks Pictures, Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-sixth-shrek-is-in-development.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"a-sixth-shrek-is-in-development\"\/><\/a>Dreamworks Pictures, Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>A sixth \u201cShrek\u201d film is reportedly in development and will join the upcoming fifth film to end a nearly two-decade hiatus for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Carvey, speaking on his podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/@flyonthewallpod\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fly on the Wall<\/a>, says he has spoken to \u201cShrek\u201d star Mike Myers, who told him \u201cwe\u2019re doing two more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s presumed one of the two is the upcoming fifth film, which was originally announced for this July but was ultimately pushed back to June 30th 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Zendaya will play the daughter of Shrek (Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz). Eddie Murphy returns as the voice of Donkey, but it doesn\u2019t appear as if Antonio Banderas will be back as Puss in Boots.<\/p>\n<p>The first two films were widely loved, the third and fourth not so much with the franchise seemingly ending with 2010\u2019s \u201cShrek Forever After\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Walt Dohrn, Conrad Vernon, and Brad Ableson direct the fifth film.  No word on when a sixth might go into production.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-teaser-foxs-baywatch-series-reboot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Teaser: FOX\u2019s \u201cBaywatch\u201d Series Reboot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/mandalorian-obsession-rule-the-box-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMandalorian,\u201d \u201cObsession\u201d Rule The Box-Office<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dreamworks Pictures, Universal Pictures A sixth \u201cShrek\u201d film is reportedly in development and will join the upcoming fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}