Eddie Murphy Wants to Do a Donkey Shrek Spinoff Movie

Yes, “Shrek” followers, Eddie Murphy would love to do “Shrek 5” — and he needs 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 would do another Shrek in two seconds,” he stated, earlier than including the ball is in Dreamworks’s court docket. “That’s Dreamworks Animation. They have to want to do it. Dreamworks, if you all want to do it, just call me. I’m ready, I’m sitting and ready to do Donkey.”

Murphy additionally obtained candid about wanting his fast-talking, wise-cracking character Donkey to lastly get his personal spinoff. “I love Donkey. You know, they did Puss in Boots movies. I was like, ‘They should have did a Donkey movie. Donkey is funnier than Puss in Boots.’ I mean, I love Puss in Boots, but he ain’t as funny as 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 greatest animated image earlier this month. Banderas celebrated the film’s nomination on Twitter, writing, “Holy frijoles!!!! Let’s rise up our cups of milk!!!! After 20 years with my kitten . . . let’s go to the Oscars! Puss in Boots: The last Wish’s nominated for the Best Animated Film. Thanks to @TheAcademy. Proud of all the team and cast 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 bored with taking part in the grumpy ogre.

“There’s an emotional center there,” Myers stated of Shrek. “You know the old joke ‘I wouldn’t want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member’? I have always felt that way. The concept of going from a self-loathing ogre to a self-accepting ogre was meaningful to me. I love playing Shrek. If I had to do one ‘Shrek’ a year, I’d be thrilled.”