"Mamma Mia 3" Is Happening

NBCUniversal Entertainment chairman Dame Donna Langley teased a potential "Mamma Mia" threequel at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, where she is set to receive the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the arts charity’s highest accolade.

“Yes, I’m going to say right now that there will be a Mamma Mia 3,” Langley said on the BAFTA carpet.

The studio chief added that she didn’t have a specific date for when the movie might hit cinemas, but she is currently in “conversations with the wonderful Judy Craymer,” the original producer behind the ABBA musical.

“We’re talking about it,” Langley said.

When quizzed by Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye about whether Meryl Streep might return for the third installment, Langley said: “If Meryl Streep would like to come back, we’ll find a way to bring her back.”

"Mamma Mia!" was released in 2008. The pic, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, is based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name. The story follows Sophie as she prepares for her wedding at her mother’s Grecian island hotel. What Donna doesn’t know is that Sophie has invited three of her former flames (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård) in hopes that one of them is her father and will agree to walk her down the aisle.

A sequel to the movie released in 2018 was a prequel, following a young Donna’s (Lily James) romance with the same three men in 1979, when she first arrived on the island of Kalokairi.

Earlier this year, Amanda Seyfried, who led both films, said she thinks the third entry should focus on her character Sophie as a mother.