Judy Craymer, in an interview with The Daily Mail, teases for a third instalment in the Mamma Mia! film franchise. It was just two weeks after the airliners crashed into the World trade center on 9/11 that Mamma Mia! the musical opened on broadway. Producer Judy Craymer commented while talking to The Daily Mail that Mamma Mia! has always been restorative. The Mamma Mia! the musical will pay a hearty tribute to doctors, nurses, and hospital staff when it reopens in London anytime after the pandemic. Craymer said that she will be ‘NHS and frontline workers to see the show when we get the West End back’.
Mamma Mia! the film starring Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried was released in 2008 with good critical reception and great fan reception. A sequel to Mamma Mia! “Here we go again” was released in 2018 and will be released on the OTT platform Netflix on June 26 this year. During the lockdown, Craymer said, she was trying to focus on the third instalment of Mamma Mia! but couldn’t figure it out yet. She said:
“I was meant to have been getting on with that, in my head, during these months. But then I got hit with COVID fog, I think one day there will be another film because there’s meant to be a trilogy, you see.”
So, the good news is that we have a trilogy that’s confirmed, but the bad news is that we don’t know when!
“I know Universal would like me to do it”, she said. Craymer also added that she means to add the four Abba numbers written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus for the virtual concert they’ve planned with Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, to the movie.
Mamma Mia’s sequel Here we go again ended with Amanda Seyfried’s character being a mom now, given that Mamma Mia’s essentially a Mother-daughter or family relations story rather than just being a comedic flick with Abba songs, it could be interesting to see how Seyfried’s relationship with her son develops and what new plot points it can give us to think upon. The sad part is that Meryl Streep’s character is no more with us, but the franchise can develop storylines merging with flashbacks to bring her back, as it has already happened in the sequel. We will have to wait for more news, as we don’t see a threequel nearby at all. Till then enjoy the sequel that comes on Netflix this June 26.