Antonio Banderas’s latest film, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, screened at the Red Sea Film Festival this week, and the actor told the festival audience that he believes his animated feline is likely to return to the big screen in a fifth Shrek movie.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the fifth time that Banderas has lent his voice to the animated series. His first outing was the first Shrek film, which debuted in competition at Cannes in 2001. “I’ve been with this cat for almost 20 years,” he said. “The first time I did Puss In Boots, I was working on broadway, so I did my first session there.
I’ve done five movies now. There is probably gonna be another, and Sherk is probably coming back.” It had previously been reported that a fifth Shrek movie was in the works and was set for a 2019 release.
However, no film materialized, and there hasn’t been any news about the franchise since. Dreamworks produced all four films and numerous spin-offs.
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