Eddie Murphy Desires to Do a Donkey Shrek Spinoff Film

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

“I’d do one other Shrek in two seconds,” he mentioned, earlier than including the ball is in Dreamworks’s court docket. “That is Dreamworks Animation. They need to need to do it. Dreamworks, should you all need to do it, simply name me. I am prepared, I am sitting and able to do Donkey.”

Murphy additionally obtained candid about wanting his fast-talking, wise-cracking character Donkey to lastly get his personal spinoff. “I really like Donkey. You already know, they did Puss in Boots films. I used to be like, ‘They need 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.

Thus far, 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 Final Want,” nabbed an Oscar nomination for greatest 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 Want’s nominated for the Greatest Animated Movie. Because of @TheAcademy. Pleased with all of the staff and solid PIB!!!”

With “Puss in Boots: The Final Want” 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 Might 2022 interview with GQ, he shared that he by no means will get bored with enjoying the grumpy ogre.

“There’s an emotional middle there,” Myers mentioned of Shrek. “You already 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 manner. The idea of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was significant to me. I really like enjoying Shrek. If I needed to do one ‘Shrek’ a 12 months, I would be thrilled.”

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