Mamma Mia 3 Replace Shared By Amanda Seyfried As She Desires To Reteam With Director & Star Of 81% RT Thriller

Amanda Seyfried shares an replace on the potential of a brand new Mamma Mia! taking place, which she would love for a current collaborator to direct. Paul Feig’s The Housemaid, starring Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney, hits theaters this weekend. The Les Misérables star additionally has The Testomony of Ann Lee, directed by Mona Fastvold, getting its large launch on Christmas Day.

Seyfried could possibly be a 2026 Finest Actress nominee on the Oscars for The Testomony of Ann Lee, having secured precursor nominations for a Critics Alternative Award and Golden Globe. The beforehand Oscar-nominated star has a number of extra tasks within the pipeline, however has not but given up on one other sequel after 2018’s Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more.

In interviews with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan for The Housemaid and The Testomony of Ann Lee, Seyfried twice commented on the long-gestating sequel. Throughout the interview for The Housemaid with Seyfried, Sweeney, and Feig, when requested, “[…] how are you feeling concerning the third movie and the place are we?” Seyfried responded:

We’re not anyplace. I imply, there’s so many people in it, and if you do not have a narrative you’ll be able to’t forged in your head but. I am dying to seek out out if there is a position for [Sydney Sweeney], however I do not know what the story goes to be, and I do know that the music half… it is a huge a part of it, so now we have to make it possible for everyone is aligned. I don’t know. I want I used to be producing it as a result of I’d’ve made it already.

Feig then requested: “Are there sufficient songs left?” He was met with the response that the soundtrack would not have to be solely songs from ABBA that have not been used but within the films. Seyfried stated: “You do not want new songs. […] They do have songs, however I do not wish to hear the King Kong tune in Mamma Mia 3. I wish to go together with our hits. I wish to go together with Tremendous Trouper and Chiquitita.”

Seyfried additionally joked with Sweeney about bringing her into the franchise, the 2 agreeing that she would not “must do something however sing in Mamma Mia” and “have an excellent time.” “I am there,” stated Sweeney. Feig then shocked Seyfried when he requested: “Can I direct if?” This alternate got here up in a special interview between ScreenRant and Seyfried for The Testomony of Ann Lee.

When prompted with the remark that Feig might need been “lifeless severe” about directing Mamma Mia 3, Seyfried responded: “He’s. I imply, it felt like he was severe.” She went on to reward his directing and modifying expertise, nodding to how this may serve the following Mamma Mia! installment, if it ever involves be:

I imply, Mama Mia is iconic. Paul is his personal … I do not know. It’s superb to look at him work. After which to see the tip, the edit. I do not know the way he does it, however he is one in every of a form and I believe he suits completely into that style and the humor, the humorousness that he finds, that he present in the home with my character particularly. It is similar to, what a marvel that man is.

2008’s Mamma Mia!, additionally starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, and Christine Baranski, is predicated on the beforehand current Broadway jukebox musical of the identical identify. 2018’s follow-up was an authentic sequel and prequel, exploring Streep’s character’s (Seyfried’s character’s mom) life as a younger girl in addition to a present-day storyline.

Sophie (Seyfried) offers delivery to her personal youngster on the finish of the film after reuniting together with her estranged grandmother (Cher). A 3rd Mamma Mia! faces the immense problem of being an pointless sequel to an pointless sequel, but it surely may nonetheless be as a lot enjoyable as each its predecessors, and it could contemplate bringing in new actors and creatives to brighten up the story.