It sounds like Mama Mia! Here we go again director Ol Parker may be ready to take a chance on pursuing another film in the musical franchise.
Parker, who helmed the 2018 Universal Pictures follow-up to director Phyllida Lloyd’s 2008 hit Mama Mia!told Screen Rant in a interview published online Saturday that producer Judy Craymer had always intended to make a film trilogy. Craymer has credits for both films as well as the ABBA-centric jukebox musical of the same name, which was the basis for the first film and has been played on the West End and Broadway.
“Judy Craymer, the genius producer behind the musical and the first two movies, is always planning to make it a trilogy,” Parker teased. “That’s all I can say. The first one made a huge amount of money, and I think we made quite a bit too.
The Ticket to paradise filmmaker continued: “I know there is a hunger for a third, and I know she has a plan. Wouldn’t it be wonderful?”
Mama Mia! Here we go again brought back cast members from the first film such as Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper and Christine Baranski, along with adding new players including Lily James and Cher.
In her review for The Hollywood Reporternoted film critic Leslie Felperin that the sequel’s selection of ABBA tunes was less remarkable than that of the first: many proper B-sides, or at least lesser-known tunes from the back catalog of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the two Swedish singer-songwriters who formed half of the 1970s pop quartet ABBA.”
Here we go again collected $395 million worldwide, which was far short of the 2008 film’s $609 million worldwide gross.
