Mamma Mia, it's a Sequel!
Friday, June 2, 2017 at 12:30PM by Murtada
By now you’ve probably already heard the news. There’s a sequel to Mama Mia! (2008) coming our way in July of next year. The release date will be exactly 10 years after the first one. Yes we are that old! It will be unimaginatively titled Mama Mia: Here We Go Again, taken right from the chorus of the song. They must’ve spent all of 2 seconds coming up with that. The original wasn’t exactly a good movie, but it was a fun summer time at the movies buoyed along by everyone’s familiarity with the ABBA song catalog. More of that is definately not an unappealing prospect.
The studio announced that all cast members are expected to return. However so far only Amanda Seyfried is confirmed. If Meryl Streep does indeed sign on, 2018 will mark her first foray into sequels. And of course she’s going big with not one but two of them. She will also appear in a supporting part in that other musical sequel; Mary Poppins Returns, albeit her character there is a new one. Frankly this is not the character we would’ve liked to see her reprise. We are still waiting for The Further Adventures of Miranda Priestly.
Reader Comments (30)
Absolutely no one is waiting for this. Up until Prada I was Streep's biggest fan. Now she has become very uninteresting and a bit of a parody of herself.
I'm excited. Watching Dame Streep belt out ABBA was a major highlight for me in 08.
They should lean in to the "dry well" vibe, go all b-sides and anything with nonsense lyrics/onomatopoeia titles.
I'm guessing this sequel was helped a lot by international markets - isn't "Mamma Mia" a bigger deal in the UK? I know around this time they had a few knock-off films that didn't see US releases, "Walking on Sunshine" (80s jukebox musical) and "Sunshine on Leith" (The Proclaimers).
"People Need Love"!!!
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The Day Before You Came , it can be very cinematic !
Couldn't they at least have called this schlockfest Dancing Queens.
"The Day Before You Came" is certainly a great choice, and the music video is so cinematic and hauntingly beautiful.
"If it Wasn't for the Nights" is perhaps my favorite ABBA song. "As Good As New" is fantastic and underrated as well. The Voulez-Vous album has probably the best songs that were (IMO) mistakenly not released as singles.
Other picks--"I Am the City," "One Man, One Woman," "Disillusion," "Under Attack."
Oh No! is this what nostalgia has become.
I will admit that I love this movie, flaws and all, similar to Grease. Streep's versions of Super Trooper and Slipping Through My Fingers are songs that I actually listen to. And why not do a sequel? It was a huge success and made over $600 million in 2008, and she gets to play a mature woman with an active romantic life. I am completely supportive of this and hope it turns out great, especially with a new director.
Mamma Mia was a huge hit world-wide so a sequels should not be surprising except that it took 10 years
As for Streep, she is not confirmed and if she is I bet it will only be a for a short cameo :(
We don't need this people.
We just don't.
6 words==== Do you hear the drums, Fernando?
As long as Pierce Brosnan doesn't sing again. I can go for another film.
Im assuming this one will follow Amanda Seyfried's character and the older ones only have cutesy cameos or show up for only one number (maybe two, if they go for a massive musical finale in which everybody sings together).
I'd love to see Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad have roles in this, even if they're just cameos. Those women are goddesses.
Nobody's relieved the director changed? *lol*
A sequel... Well, why not? I feel like this is going to be a bit more serious.
I LOVE MM! and it will be written on my graveyeard. How to explain real love? I just happens. Sometimes even simple overjoyus movies can change your life and this movie did it for me.
And also for all people that think "Why Meryl, why?" there's quite a wonderful backstory to why she made MM!: In 2001 a few months after the the terror attack in NY, her youngest daughter was only 10 and still traumasized. So her mother took her and a few friends to the MM! Broadway show and they just loved it. She even wrote the crew a thank you letter!
So yeah....
I'd love to see a DWP sequel and since they gladly turned an awful novel into a really good movie, maybe they can do it again. But I doubt it will happen.
And I'd love to hear "The Day before you came". It's.... really interesting!
I do hope Meryl sings it. 8)
I loved the first movie... flaws and all. I think the time is right for a HAPPY movie to be seen and heard around the world. Our times are so horrific that a movie like this will be a welcome relief.
I hope they can get all on board and make a good sequel.
Hopefully the movie starts as Brosnan's funeral. They could hire Crowe to replace him.
Thanks for the great comments. Naked Dominic Cooper please.
"The Further Adventures of Miranda Priestly."
Yes, please! We want this, and we want this now!
"Eagle" is also a great song with a gorgeous music video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEzgAL7RAw
More than a sequel, can't we just hope for a REMAKE and make a good musical film out of the musical play? Because even with Streep, the first one was horrible. And it already spawned an horrible, even more akward disaster called "Walking on Sunshine", which was a so blatant rip off, that I could barely sit through its first 10 minutes when caught it at TV.
Possible Premise- amanda seyfried or if she's a mother her child is having a medical emergency that can only be saved by her father because seyfried ddi not inherit streepms blood type/ profile.
So first getting everyone together,
Then father revelation ,
Then will seyfried/her child survive
End.
I hated this movie from beginning to end- the forced cheerfulness was painful- there is an even worse rip off made in Australia which uses 80's pop songs
You people don't know fun. I saw the first film in theaters and the whole place was rocking like a concert. Also the cast had SO MUCH FUN filming it. All the BTS stuff bears that out. No doubt all of them will be back.
I'd rather see a sequel to 'Hairspray.'
*I can slouch through a MM sequel only if Pierce Bronson isn't in it. And aren't all the 'great' ABBA songs already used? Was 'Thank You For The Music' in the 1st one? That song is a classic!
Listening to ABBA's non-hits is really a challenge...
I feel like this post is a threat, rather than a treat.
I would rather pull my eyeballs out than watch Mamma Mia 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Actually, if this became a cross between Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and Mamma Mia, I might see it.
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