Alan Carr randomly ‘confirms’ third movie in huge franchise – because he’s in it

Mamma Mia 3 is finally coming, and it’s been announced in an unusual manner.

Following the success of the first two blockbuster movie musicals, which starred Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, and Cher and were packed with Abba’s iconic songs, there have been persistent expectations – and murmurs – of a last big-screen adventure in Greece.

However, it is only now that it looks that everything is back on track, 15 years after the original and five years after Mamma Mia! We’re at it again.

The revelation was also left to one of the show’s newest cast members, Alan Carr, who dropped the brilliantly musical bombshell.

After appearing as a judge on the new ITV talent show Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream, the Chatty Man comic stated that producer Judy Craymer promised him he’d be in the future film.

Alan, 47, said on Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp: ‘Judy Cramer the producer has said that I’m gonna be in Mamma Mia 3.’

He added: ‘She said this and we did a press conference and I said, ‘Say it, Say it!’ because she’d had a few wines when she said it so I wanted her to say it in front of all the press.’

When co-host Sian Welby clarified, ‘So as in the film!?’, Alan responded: ‘The film, yeah, I’m going to Hollywood baby!’

Although it may appear strange, Alan has clearly worked closely with Mamma Mia mastermind Craymer on the TV talent competition this year, which seeks two undiscovered people to play key parts in the West End musical.

At a screening Q&A before the broadcast, he also made a few sharp remarks about his movie ambitions and even what role he would play in the franchise.

 

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Judy revealed to the press that he had shown interest in appearing in the unnamed picture.

‘He’s been sending me cash on a weekly basis,’ she joked, before he expressed a desire to play a ‘camp waiter’ in the next movie.

‘Surely you can write that in!’ he implored, before adding: ‘I’m not getting any younger.’

So keep a look out for updates!

Craymer expressed her excitement for Mamma Mia 3 earlier this year, saying it was in its “early stages” but not yet “official.”

‘I don’t want to over-egg it, but I know there’s a trilogy there,’ she told Deadline.

Even better, she’s trying to entice all of the show’s past stars to rejoin Alan after discovering a way in the script.

‘There is a story there, and I do think Meryl should come back – and if the script is right, she would, I think, because she really loved playing Donna.’

At the I Have A Dream Q&A, Judy also admitted that ‘everything with Mamma Mia takes a long time’.

‘It took many years for it to happen for television, but I do hope so,’ she shared of her desire for a third film.

After a decade of trying to persuade Abba to give her the rights to their songs, Judy’s musical premiered in the West End in 1999 and has since been viewed by over 65 million people worldwide.

The first picture, which also starred Dame Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, and Dominic Cooper, was an instant success, collecting $611 million (£503.9 million), making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2008.

Lily James then starred in the sequel as a younger version of Donna, with Cher as Donna’s mother.

Judy then revealed in 2020 that a third feature was in the works, but nothing more has been spoken about it since.