The summer of 2025, like most summers, is stuffed with sequels and reboots: Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, The Fantastic Four. Amanda Seyfried, at least, seems to prefer new stories to franchises. She’s tired of reboots—but then again, she couldn’t resist taking another spin on the Greek island of Kalokairi. “It’s not scary and not very brave to do sequels. It’s just for money and it’s frustrating,” Seyfried recently said in Interview magazine. “Then again, I’d do Mamma Mia! 3 in a heartbeat.”
Since its release in 2008, Mamma Mia! has become more than just a jukebox musical inspired by ABBA. It’s also a generational phenomenon and a pop culture treasure, with its own devoted fan base. Ten years later, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again rekindled the flame, juggling the past of Donna (played by Meryl Streep and Lily James) with the present of her daughter, Sophie (Seyfried). As a bonus, the film featured Cher in the role of maternal diva ex machina.
Today, all signs point to a third chapter in the franchise becoming a reality. Mamma Mia producer Judy Craymer confirmed to Deadline in May 2025 that the film was indeed in development: “We know what we want to do, and it will happen.” No shooting has yet begun, but a script already exists. Seyfried expressed her enthusiasm for the possibility while speaking with Rachel Brosnahan (who stars in the new Superman adaptation) and denouncing—not without irony— Hollywood’s addiction to recycled material.
“It’s Fantastic Super-park. It’s Four Superparks. Four Dinosaurs. Four Super Dinosaurs. I don’t know! I will say, there’s a little bit of fatigue with sequels. I want original content. I think it’s really scary and brave to do it,” she said—before confessing her hopes to revisit Mamma Mia.
Mamma Mia star Christine Baranski has already teased the project, explaining that she got wind of the plot at a London dinner with Judy Craymer. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård have all expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of reprising their roles. Although her character was killed off between the first two films, Meryl Streep may also reprise her role. Then the rumor that Sabrina Carpenter has been approached to star in the third opus. “She’d be a goddess or some relation who would look very much like” Streep, said the producer. Amanda Seyfried herself hinted that she could see the pop singer and actress playing her daughter on screen.
Mamma Mia 3 could explore the childhood of Sophie’s son Donny, the past of Cher’s character, Ruby, or yet another genealogical twist. In this universe, the whole island seems genetically linked by Swedish refrains. For the moment, Craymer refuses to say more than that she has one more story to tell.
“It’s not about sequels or redoing stuff. It’s about people engaging with characters, whether it’s become a habit or streaming or favorite films. It’s like listening to music over and over again. Like reading a book. You might read it twice. People read Dickens many times. No, IP continues on, and the movie is important for me creatively more than anything. But also because I think the world needs another fun experience,” Craymer told Deadline. “Cinema is having a tough time. [It] wouldn’t be a big expensive Marvel movie, but people would go.”
An ambitious wish? Perhaps. But in a cinematic landscape saturated with extended universes, Mamma Mia! remains a joyful anomaly: a film where people sing in the sunshine, fall in love to disco tunes, and where even death doesn’t stop the characters from dancing.
Original story in VF France.
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