Eddie Murphy Wants to Do a Donkey Shrek Spinoff Movie

Yes, “Shrek” followers, Eddie Murphy would love to do “Shrek 5” — and he desires a Donkey film, too. The “You People” star lately shared his ideas on returning to the Shrek franchise in an interview with CTV’s Etalk.

“I might do one other Shrek in two seconds,” he stated, earlier than including the ball is in Dreamworks’s courtroom. “That’s Dreamworks Animation. They have to need to do it. Dreamworks, in case you all need to do it, simply name me. I’m prepared, I’m sitting and prepared to do Donkey.”

Murphy additionally acquired candid about wanting his fast-talking, wise-cracking character Donkey to lastly get his personal spinoff. “I really like Donkey. You know, they did Puss in Boots films. I used to be like, ‘They ought to have did a Donkey film. Donkey is funnier than Puss in Boots.’ I imply, I really like Puss in Boots, however he ain’t as humorous because the Donkey,” Murphy joked.

To date, Puss in Boots, who’s voiced by Antonio Banderas, has been the star of three “Shrek” spinoffs after first showing in “Shrek 2.” The newest film within the swashbuckling cat’s franchise, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” nabbed an Oscar nomination for finest animated image earlier this month. Banderas celebrated the film’s nomination on Twitter, writing, “Holy frijoles!!!! Let’s stand up our cups of milk!!!! After 20 years with my kitten . . . let’s go to the Oscars! Puss in Boots: The final Wish’s nominated for the Best Animated Film. Thanks to @TheAcademy. Proud of all of the group and forged PIB!!!”

With “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” incomes accolades, now could be the proper time for Dreamworks to roll out extra films within the Shrek universe. For his half, the franchise’s star Mike Myers is simply as prepared for extra Shrek as Murphy is. In a May 2022 interview with GQ, he shared that he by no means will get uninterested in taking part in the grumpy ogre.

“There’s an emotional middle there,” Myers stated of Shrek. “You know the previous joke ‘I would not need to be a member of a membership that might have me as a member’? I’ve at all times felt that approach. The idea of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was significant to me. I really like taking part in Shrek. If I had to do one ‘Shrek’ a yr, I’d be thrilled.”

Hear that, Dreamworks? Shrek and Donkey are prepared and ready for his or her subsequent journey.