{"id":1049921,"date":"2026-06-25T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1049921\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:06:19","slug":"donkey-eddie-murphys-shrek-prequel-movie-gets-2028-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1049921\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey: Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ Prequel Movie Gets 2028 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEddie Murphy<\/a>\u2018s beloved Donkey from the Shrek<\/a> franchise is getting his own adventure, presumably involving waffles.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal<\/a> Pictures announced Thursday that the studio is set to release Donkey theatrically June 30, 2028. Murphy will return for the DreamWorks Animation<\/a> feature to voice the character that he has played since the original Shrek hit theaters in 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\tDonkey returns audiences to a land Far, Far Away in telling the adventure-seeking title character\u2019s origin story. Charlie Bean, known for helming The Lego Ninjago Movie, is directing the prequel movie that counts Matt Flynn, who worked on The Bad Guys, as co-director. Rebecca Huntley serves as producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the latest good news for fans of the long-running animation franchise that explores the fairy tale world and is loosely based on William Steig\u2019s 1990 picture book, Shrek! Hitting theaters next summer<\/a>, Shrek 5<\/a> sees Zendaya joining the voice cast that includes returnees Mike Myers<\/a>\u00a0as the titular misunderstood ogre,\u00a0Murphy\u00a0as his best pal Donkey and\u00a0Cameron Diaz<\/a>\u00a0as Princess Fiona.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shrek series\u2019 four theatrical movies have surpassed $2.9 billion at the global box office, with the most recent title being 2010\u2019s\u00a0Shrek Forever After. It also spawned two spinoff movies centered on Antonio Banderas\u2019 Puss in Boots, with\u00a0Puss in Boots: The Last Wish\u00a0arriving in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tMurphy teased the Donkey-focused project late last year during a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always said I would do\u00a0Shrek\u00a0forever,\u201d the star said at the time. \u201cDonkey is a great character to play. I love the whole cast. So I was excited when it was like, \u2018Hey, they\u2019re doing another one,\u2019 and they want to\u00a0do a Donkey one<\/a>, too. I\u2019m totally into it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy\u2018s beloved Donkey from the Shrek franchise is getting his own adventure, presumably involving waffles. Universal Pictures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1049922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[32015,2454,71443,43170,77,79080,3943,222730,241091,16,15,6114],"class_list":["post-1049921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-cameron-diaz","tag-dreamworks-animation","tag-eddie-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-mike-myers","tag-movies","tag-shrek","tag-shrek-5","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-universal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}