It’s official, SHREK franchise will finally end with its fourth installment. All that talk about SHREK 5 and 6 is.. well, it’s nothing but talk. USA TODAY has the first still image from the upcoming SHREK FOREVER AFTER in 3D, directed by Mike Mitchell (Sky High, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo) featuring your beloved Ogre with Rumpelstiltskin, voiced by Walt Dohrn, the character showed up briefly in Shrek 2 and Shrek The Third. The trailer for SHREK FOREVER AFTER will be attached to James Cameron’s 3D epic AVATAR which opens nationwide December 18th, 2009 but I’m sure the trailer will hit the web days before in that same week, so keep checking here to watch it. Check out the excerpt that tells the storyline for SHREK FOREVER AFTER and find out a couple of more new characters after this jump…
The premise is the Brothers Grimm meets It’s a Wonderful Life: After rescuing a princess, getting hitched and fathering triplets, Shrek is feeling over-domesticated. “He has lost his roar,”
“It used to send villagers running away in terror. Now they run to him and ask him to sign their pitchforks and torches.”
To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin
Of course, the pact goes awry and Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed. That translates into Donkey being forced into cart-pulling duty, fat and lazy Puss in Boots trading his sword for a pink bow and the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin ruling the kingdom.
No Shrek outing would be complete without new characters, and there are a bunch. Comedians Kathy Griffin and Kristin Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) are witches who hunt ogres. On the side of good is an underground resistance group led by Jon Hamm of Mad Men.
Phew, it’s a good thing the makers of SHREK franchise wasn’t Sylvester Stallone, otherwise we’d be having SHREK movies til the end of time.
It was good while it lasted, now it’s time for the curtains to come down. The sequels will never be as great as the first movie, obviously but they did have their moments. I’d be lying if I said Puss In Boots wasn’t a funny addition to the team.
Speaking of which, PUSS IN BOOTS will hit theaters on November 4th, 2011
SHREK FOREVER AFTER opens May 21st, 2010
