Mike Myers did not hold back when the conversation turned to Shrek 5 on the Focker-In-Law premiere carpet in New York on Wednesday night, and the voice of Shrek saved his highest praise for the film he has now finished recording.
“The filmmakers are so brilliant. The script is so great. This might be my favorite one, of all of them. They’ve really outdone themselves. I can’t wait for people to see it,” Myers told Deadline.
He also pointed to the heart of the new film, describing a story about learning to love yourself, the same message that powered the original Shrek in 2001 and turned the grumpy ogre into one of animation’s most beloved characters.
Shrek 5 opens in theaters on June 30, 2027, and it is the first mainline entry in the series since Shrek Forever After in 2010. Myers returns alongside Eddie Murphy as Donkey and Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona, while Zendaya voices the couple’s daughter Felicia and Marcello Hernández and Skyler Gisondo voice her brothers Fergus and Farkle. Walt Dohrn and Conrad Vernon direct the film, which takes the family on an adventure to a city called Further Further Away. A first teaser trailer arrived in June, the cast finished recording in August, and John Powell, who co-scored the original film, is composing the music.
The sequel has been building toward this moment for a while. Trevor Decker News covered Murphy’s early update back in 2024, when he revealed he had already started recording Donkey’s lines and teased a Donkey spinoff still to come.
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