Mamma Mia! is one of the most popular musicals to have made the jump to the big screen with not 1 but two movies, and with talks nearly Mamma Mia 3  floating around in contempo years, hither's what the chief actors of the potential trilogy have said nigh returning. Dorsum in 2008, the phase musical Mamma Mia! made the leap to the big screen with Phyllida Lloyd as director and a screenplay by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the 1999 musical. What makes Mamma Mia! stand out from other musicals is that it'due south based on the songs of ABBA, with additional music by ABBA member Benny Anderson, and this has been key to its success on stage and on the big screen.

Mamma Mia! follows Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young bridehoped-for who decides to invite 3 men to her upcoming wedding: Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth), and Bill (Stellan Skarsgård), each one with the possibility of existence her father. Their arrival is a major shake-up for Sophie's female parent, Donna (Meryl Streep), who thought she would never see these men again, and now they are all together, staying at her villa, and preparing to attend her girl'southward wedding. Mamma Mia! was a big box role hitting, but critical reception was mixed, with a lot of criticism about the plot and the casting of inexperienced singers. All the same, all this criticism didn't stop Mamma Mia! from getting a sequel, then Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again was released ten years after.

Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Again reunited viewers with Sophie as she prepared for the k reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna, in honour of her recently deceased female parent. The movie jumps back and forth in time to tell the story of how a young Donna (Lily James) met Harry, Bill, and Sam, and it likewise introduces Donna's mother, Ruby (Cher). Although Mamma Mia! Here We Get Again was a commercial and critical success, it was planned to exist the closing affiliate in the Mamma Mia! movie series, but in 2020, producer Judy Craymer announced that a 3rd picture show was in development – and hither'due south what the bandage has said about returning for Mamma Mia 3.

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård played Bill Anderson in both Mamma Mia! movies, and he would be upwardly to return for a third take chances. Pecker Anderson is a Swedish sailor and travel author whose dandy-aunt Sofia made it possible for Donna to build her villa in Greece after letting her stay in an abandoned farmhouse she owned. Speaking to Screen Rant in 2021 while promoting Dune, Skarsgård said that he doesn't remember he will be around if Mamma Mia 3 takes another decade to exist made, simply if he gets a call to make it, he "will say yes immediately" as the experience of the previous movies "was fantastic". Past the finish of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once more, Bill reunited with former lover Rosie (Julie Walters), so there's still more to explore in his story.

Christine Baranski

Christine Baranski played Tanya Chesham-Leigh, Donna's best friend and one of her former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos, also equally a female parent effigy (forth with Rosie) to Sophie later Donna's death. While promoting the HBO series The Golden Age, Baranski opened up to EW about returning for Mamma Mia 3, and only similar Skarsgård, she's open to it. Baranski emphasized the fun the cast had while filming the first two movies, assertive that if they could all "become dorsum and have the same amount of good fun and exist on a Greek island together and dining together", she doesn't think anybody would say "no" to information technology. However, she noted that the biggest trouble is scheduling and thus getting the cast together, but she suggested a reunion special like those of Friends and Harry Potter, where the cast could just sit downwards, tell stories, and take fun.

Lily James

Lily James joined the cast of Mamma Mia! as the young version of Donna in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once more. With no story details about Mamma Mia three, it'due south unknown if there would be room for James to return as Donna, simply she's nonetheless up to reprise her role. Speaking to Screen Rant while promoting the Tv set serial Pam & Tommy, James said she's "desperate" for Mamma Mia 3 to happen, merely she doesn't know if her character could exist included. James added that it volition "probably be like, Sophie's baby", which seems similar the most obvious footstep for the trilogy, but equally Donna is one of the main characters of the story, it's possible Mamma Mia 3 could include flashbacks and thus include James and fifty-fifty Meryl Streep too.

Dominic Cooper

Dominic Cooper played Sky Ramand, Sophie'due south married man and father of her son. Unlike his above-mentioned co-stars, Cooper doesn't seem as well enthusiastic about Mamma Mia 3 happening, sharing that he texted the motion picture'due south producer after ABBA's latest album was released, simply he doesn't know if a 3rd motion-picture show will happen. Just like Skarsgård, Cooper joked most Mamma Mia three taking another 10 years to happen and he not knowing how he volition look like or if he volition be effectually. Mamma Mia! Here We Get Once again saw Sophie and Heaven'south marriage struggling as Sky got a task in New York and she stayed in Greece, but by the end of the picture, they solved their issues and welcomed their son, Donny.

Colin Firth

Colin Firth played Harry Bright, a British banker Donna met in Paris and who became ane of Sophie's possible fathers. In an interview with GMA, Firth seemed optimistic virtually Mamma Mia 3 happening, as well as a fourth and a fifth movie. Firth sees Mamma Mia three equally an organic step for the pic series, saying that if you "manage to make a 2nd ane, I guess y'all tin make a third, a fourth, and a fifth". Firth added that if people want it, information technology could happen, and he would be up for reprising his role as Bill "just to see my friends again on some beautiful isle". With nigh of the principal bandage up to return for Mamma Mia 3 , it'south only a thing of waiting to encounter if the projection will get out of development hell, and hopefully, information technology won't take another decade to happen.

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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to exist a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out cracking). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was besides a correspondent for FanSided'southward BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to depression-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV testify without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

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