Donna Langley Shares ‘Mamma Mia 3’ Update & Teases Meryl Streep’s Return: “We’ll Find A Way”

NBCUniversal Entertainment chairman Dame Donna Langley teased a potential Mamma Mia threequel this afternoon at the BAFTA Film Awards, where she is set to receive the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the arts charity’s highest accolade.

“Yes, I’m going to say right now that there will be a Mamma Mia 3,” Langley told Deadline on the BAFTA carpet.

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The studio chief added that she didn’t have a specific date for when the film might hit cinemas, but she is currently in “conversations with the wonderful Judy Craymer,” the original producer behind the ABBA musical.

“We’re talking about it,” Langley said.

When quizzed by Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye about whether Meryl Streep might return for the third film, Langley said: “If Meryl Streep would like to come back, we’ll find a way to bring her back.”

Mamma Mia! was released in 2008. The film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, is based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name. The story follows Sophie as she prepares for her wedding at her mother’s Grecian island hotel. What Donna doesn’t know is that Sophie has invited three of her former flames (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård) in hopes that one of them is her father and will agree to walk her down the aisle.

A sequel to the movie released in 2018 was a prequel, following a young Donna’s (Lily James) romance with the same three men in 1979, when she first arrives on the island of Kalokairi.

Earlier this year, Amanda Seyfried, who leads both films, said she thinks the third film should focus on her character Sophie as a mother.

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