This is per the doomspeakers over at Deadline, who revealed that Universal has forestalled the birth of the long-gestating Shrek 5, delaying it from a July 2026 release to Christmas of that same year.

It was followed by sequels Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and Shrek Forever After in 2004, 2007, and 2010 respectively. Puss in Boots has enjoyed two spin-offs itself too, with the first arriving in ...

but now Conrad Vernon – co-director on Shrek 2 and the voice of The Gingerbread Man – has also come on board. Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, and Eddie Murphy are back as Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey ...

Way back following the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, producer Jeffrey Katzenberg told IGN that Shrek was originally planned as a five-film series - and that in Shrek 5 "we will understand how Shrek ...