MAMMA MIA 3: Producer Teases a Second Sequel to ABBA Broadway Musical Adaptation

Producer Judy Cramer suggests a third “Mamma Mia” movie will be coming in the future

Judy Craymer, producer of the original “Mamma Mia!” Broadway musical, the 2008 film adaptation and its 2018 sequel, suggests that there’s another film on the horizon.

Craymer says she was working on a third film before the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down, and she subsequently got set back.

“I think one day there will be another film, because there’s meant to be a trilogy, you see,” Craymer elaborated on in a recent interview. “I know Universal would like me to do it.”

In a recent interview in Collider, Amanda Seyfried (who played Sophie in both the original and the sequel), expressed her excitement and her reservations about a third Mamma Mia.

Listen, every single person in that movie would say yes in a heartbeat because we want to hang out with each other. That’s what we talked about last time, like did we ever think that we’d end up here again on an Island in Croatia? So yeah, I wish there was a Mamma Mia 3, but I’ll tell you what – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and I hope I’m wrong again. I don’t think there are enough ABBA songs to make a third movie. Because we’d have to use “Super Trooper” again and we’d have to use “Mamma Mia” again and have to use them in a different way.

Seyfried also said she thought the second film was “just perfect”, as it was “a better story, because [the characters] had something to grow on”.

Craymer sort of has an answer for Seyfried’s concerns, as she says she would want to incorporate the new songs that ABBA has written for a virtual performance into the film.

Nothing has been officially confirmed yet by Universal, the studio behind the previous two musicals. However, if box office performance alone guaranteed greenlights, we could be hearing of one sometime soon. The original Mamma Mia! amassed a worldwide gross of $609M back in 2008 on a $52M budget. The sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, while not quite as lucrative, still pulled in a profitable $395M worldwide on a $75M budget.

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