DreamWorks Animation is reviving the fan-favorite franchise Shrek with a brand new addition, Shrek 5, and they don’t seem to be slowing down on the subject of making their star-studded solid even richer, as they’ve discovered SNL and Superman stars to voice Shrek and Fiona’s sons. Franchise stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz are returning for the sequel.
It was beforehand confirmed that Zendaya would be the voice of Felicia, Shrek and Fiona’s daughter, with the discharge of the Shrek 5 teaser trailer. Now, it has been introduced that the opposite two ogre triplets, Fergus and Farkle, can be voiced by SNL‘s Marcello Hernández and Superman‘s Skyler Gisondo, becoming a member of what is probably going an intensive A-list solid.
The fifth film within the mainline Shrek sequence will arrive in theaters on June 30, 2027, 17 years after Shrek Ceaselessly After. In the interim, the franchise has expanded with two spinoffs, each led by Antonio Banderas, 2011’s Puss in Boots and 2022’s Puss in Boots: The Final Want, the latter being significantly critically acclaimed for its story and stylized animation.
Shrek and Fiona’s triplets are born on the finish of Shrek the Third, when the couple is lastly in a position to go away Far Far Away after discovering a brand new inheritor to inherit the throne from Fiona’s father. The triplets seem (nonetheless as infants) in Shrek Ceaselessly After, when Shrek is within the midst of a midlife disaster due to the calls for of being a mother or father.
The Shrek 5 teaser additionally revealed that Shrek and Fiona’s kids have grown up by the point of the sequel, as Felicia seems as a younger grownup. The plot of Shrek 5 continues to be being saved underneath wraps, leaving followers to take a position the way it may tie into Puss in Boots: The Final Want or convey again Far Far Away’s established residents.
Skyler Gisondo is a rising star recognized for Booksmart and Evening on the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, and is the budding DCU’s Jimmy Olsen. He has voice performing expertise from Netflix’s middling animated sequence Haunted Lodge (giving a robust particular person efficiency), and can star as a next-generation character within the upcoming sequel Focker In-Regulation alongside Depraved‘s Ariana Grande.
Marcello Hernández is primarily a Saturday Evening Reside star and TV character, but in addition lately appeared in Blissful Gilmore 2, with upcoming initiatives The Offended Birds Film 3 and 72 Hours. With the announcement of those two actors, Shrek 5 has accomplished the central subsequent era trio who will definitely be important to the route the brand new story goes.
- Launch Date
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December 23, 2026
- Director
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Walt Dohrn, Conrad Vernon, Brad Ableson
- Writers
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Michael McCullers, Christopher Meledandri, William Steig