Eddie Murphy returning for Shrek 5?
Shrek 5 is currently in development, but will the Coming to America legend reprise the voice of the donkey? Superb inquiry.
Chris Meledandri, the creator and CEO of Illumination, stated that offers had been made to the original cast, which included Murphy, Mike Myers, and Cameron Diaz, for the forthcoming Shrek reboot.
“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,” Meledandri informed Variety.
Referring to the upcoming Super Mario Bros. film, he furthered “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 honor 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.”
Eddie Murphy Returning for ‘Shrek 5?’ Here’s What We’ve Heard
Murphy, the original voice actor for Donkey, previously declared he would join Shrek 5 in “two seconds” and suggested a Donkey spinoff rather than Puss in Boots.
Meledandri said he was “thrilled” to hear Murphy express enthusiasm for playing the animated character again.
“It’s evidence of his strong enthusiasm for a role that he so brilliantly inhabited and really created alongside the artists at DreamWorks. I found that comment to be very exciting,” Meledandri added, expressing that a spinoff for Donkey will “without a doubt” be produced.
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Shrek debuted in 2001, and subsequent installments came out in 2004, 2007, and 2010.
Before Myers’ involvement, Nicolas Cage said in 2013 that he had been contacted to voice the movie’s titular ogre, and Jodie Comer put her name forward to be a part of the reboot.
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