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Mamma Mia!franchise creator and producer Judy Craymer is teasing that a third film may be in the works very soon.
“I don’t want to over-egg it,” she said of the unofficial news, “but I know there’s a trilogy there.”
Added Craymer, “Thereisa story there, and I do think Meryl should come back, and if the script is right, she would, I think, because she really loved playing Donna.”
When Craymer, 65, first talked of a potential third film in 2020,Amanda Seyfried, the star of the movies, said she was on board — and at the time, she thought the rest of the star-studded cast would be too.
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“Listen, every single person in that movie would say yes in a heartbeat because we want to hang out with each other,” Seyfried, 37,toldColliderat the time. “That’s what we talked about last time, like did we ever think that we’d end up here again on an Island in Croatia?”
However, she did have her reservations as far as how it would all go down musically.
“So yeah, I wish there was aMamma Mia 3, but I’ll tell you what, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and I hope I’m wrong again,” she added. “I don’t think there are enough ABBA songs to make a third movie. Because we’d have to use ‘Super Trooper’ again and we’d have to use ‘Mamma Mia’ again and have to use them in a different way.”
In 2021, she said it again, telling Stephen Colbert, “If it was up to me, yes, of course, there would be eightMamma Mia!s. Do you know how much fun that is?”
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the 2018 sequel, took place years later after Donna’s death, with Sophie pregnant and reuniting all the characters for the grand opening of the hotel that was Donna’s dream.
Ol Parker, who directedMamma Mia! Here We Go AgaintoldScreenrantin December that the pieces are there for a potential third installment.
“Judy Craymer, the genius producer behind the musical and the first two films, always plans for it to be a trilogy. That’s all I can say,” Parker said. “The first one made an enormous amount of money, and I think we made a fair amount too. I know that there is a hunger for a third, and I know that she has a plan. Wouldn’t it be lovely?”
In Deadline’s recent interview, Craymer also teasedher new film project with Cher(whom she also hopes to have back forMamma Mia 3). As for what it’s about? “Well, it’s her life. Her incredible life. I mean, she has glitter in the veins.”
source: people.com
