Introduced to audiences by ripping a page out of a medieval storybook and wiping his ass with it, beloved ogre Shrek is poised to return to the big screen. After 14 years, DreamWorks Animation is finally making memes come true, announcing , also known by its official title, , for a July 1, 2026 release. Shrek won’t sound too different, nor will Donkey or Fiona because Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz are all returning.
It’s about time that DreamWorks got off its butt and started pumping out s again. The years, it seems, start coming, and they don’t stop coming, and lately, they’ve been coming without installments. Despite being unwatchable to anyone who didn’t turn 11 at the exact moment first entered theaters, the three sequels are still the studio’s highest-grossing films, and yet was released more than a decade ago.
In the years since, DreamWorks leveraged its knack for flatulence-laced children’s comedies into a couple of and movies, to the general dismay of parents around the world. But those movies aren’t. That’s not to say the world has been entirely dormant.
2022’s became the rare movie critics liked, with . A new movie isn’t the only thing on the horizon. After spilling the beans about last month, Eddie Murphy also announced a Donkey movie was coming.
“ is coming out, and Donkey’s gonna have his own movie,” in June. “We’re gonna do as well. So we’re gonna do a , and we’re doing a .
” There we have it: A new , a movie pre.
