Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! One other sequel to “Mamma Mia!“
Talking with Rachel Brosnahan for Interview, Amanda Seyfried mentioned that she has “fatigue” from the fixed stream of franchise releases, however there’s one film world she’d return to with out hesitation.
“I’d do ‘Mamma Mia! 3’ in a heartbeat,” she mentioned.
In any other case, the “Lengthy Shiny River” star mentioned she’s over sequels. “I need authentic content material. I feel it’s actually scary and courageous to do it. It’s not scary and never very courageous to do sequels. It’s only for cash and it’s irritating,” she defined.
The thought for an additional ‘Mamma Mia!’ installment, although, has been kicking round for years. Seyfried herself talked in regards to the risk in March. “Present me the cash!” she quipped to THR in a latest interview. “Producer Judy Craymer is all the time engaged on it, however Common nonetheless has to launch ‘Depraved 2.’ The primary ‘Depraved’ needed to stall when ‘Mamma Mia! 2’ was getting made. It’s an both/or state of affairs with musicals. And I’ve this idea that Common simply is aware of we’re going to do it, in order that they’re not in any rush. And it’s simply going to value double.”
Seyfried additionally advised Vogue in 2023 in a function on the unique movie, “I dare you to point out me one one that doesn’t desire a third ‘Mamma Mia!’” She lamented there, too, that it will come all the way down to cash. “I hate to say it, as a result of would I do ‘Mamma Mia 3’ free of charge — in fact I might — however that’s not the enterprise we’re in. What’s honest is honest, and I really feel like a 3rd movie goes to come back all the way down to one thing silly like whether or not or not Common desires to pay the cash.”
‘Mamma Mia! Right here We Received Once more” was launched to stunning acclaim in 2018, with some critics even evaluating it to “The Godfather, Half 2” (no, critically). In a surprising twist (7-year-old spoilers forward) Meryl Streep‘s Donna was lifeless — solely showing as an angelic determine — and Lily James appeared in flashback sequences akin to Robert de Niro’s in that second “Godfather” film. However Streep says she would nonetheless be on board for an additional sequel — nonetheless she would possibly find yourself showing.
“After all I wish to do it,” Streep advised Deadline in Might 2024 at Cannes. “[But] I don’t know the way they’re going to do it. They’ve an thought. I haven’t heard it but but it surely’s in [my calendar] and I’m going to listen to about it fairly quickly.” Streep additionally advised Vogue it may very well be referred to as “Grand Mamma-Mia!”
“I advised Judy if she might work out a technique to reincarnate Donna, I’m into that. Or it may very well be like in a kind of cleaning soap operas the place Donna comes again and divulges it was actually her twin sister that died,” Steep mentioned within the 2023 Vogue function. In the identical article, Common boss Donna Langley mentioned, “Common would like to make a 3rd film, and I’ll depart it at that.”