The lord of the Rings has comfortably been known by many as the greatest of the trilogy in the cinema, but a new contender is ready to take its place at the top. Yes, I am referring to the possible third-Mamma Mia the movie, and I’m 100 percent serious! It has been 12 years since I began following the story of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), and her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep); and her three potential fathers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) as they danced through the Greek island of Kalokairi, singing along to the music of ABBA. Two years after the success that was Mamma Mia!: Here I Go Againthe producer Judy Craymer makes a mockery of that a third movie is already in the works.
Craymer, who worked on the original stage musical and the film adaptations, said Daily Mail she was the planning of the third installment before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “I should have been to get that in my head, during these months. But then I was hit with COVID fog,” she said. “I believe that one day there will be another movie, because it is not meant to be a trilogy, see. I know Universal, as to me to do it.”
Rather, the whole universe would like to do it! Even Seyfried is in another movie, and is pretty sure that the rest of the star cast would be as well if they could do the job.
“Listen, every single person in that movie I was going to say yes in a heartbeat, because we want to hang out with the other”, the You Should Have Left the actress told Collider. “But I’m going to say what I have said it before and I’ll say it again, and I hope that I’m wrong again. I think that there are not enough ABBA songs to make a third film. Because we would have to use “Super Trooper’ again, and we would like to have the use of ‘Mamma Mia’ and have to use it in a different way.”
It is a valid fear — there are only so many ABBA songs that can be used to sing about his mysterious paternity, but in his interview, Craymer mentioned ABBA the music that she wanted to use for the third film. And given that production would be free to follow any path they wanted, they said that they couldn’t use another type of music in its entirety? (Although it would be really Mamma Mia if there is no ABBA music?) Either way, the fans have spoken and we are totally down for another Mamma Mia sequel. And just in case Craymer is in need of some ideas to help speed up the process, I’m more than happy to help with some of my own.
