Shrek 5 Trailer: Official Teaser and Everything Announced

Shrek 5 has one trailer so far, a first teaser released on June 16, 2026, and the film reaches US theaters on June 30, 2027. It comes from DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures, and it follows four earlier main entries, from Shrek in 2001 to Shrek Forever After in 2010.

Yes, a first teaser trailer for Shrek 5 came out on June 16, 2026. A second trailer has not been announced, so any video labeled "Shrek 5 trailer 2" is not an official release. Reaction videos and commentary are not studio releases, and they are best read as opinion rather than as news about the film. The one official teaser is the only footage that DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures have put out for the film so far.

The Shrek 5 teaser was released on June 16, 2026, and the film opens in the US on June 30, 2027, according to Variety. No UK or Australian release date has been announced. The date has moved twice. Shrek 5 was first set for July 2026, then moved to December 23, 2026 (a date still in place when Zendaya's casting was revealed on February 28, 2025), and then moved to June 30, 2027, in a report from August 11, 2025. No reason for either move has been given. For comparison, the earlier main films each opened in the US in May: Shrek on May 18, 2001, Shrek 2 on May 19, 2004, Shrek the Third on May 18, 2007 and Shrek Forever After on May 21, 2010. A June 30 date is the first time the main saga would open at the end of June.

Yes, Shrek 5 is in production, and its US date of June 30, 2027 is confirmed, according to Variety. A released teaser and a named cast and directing team point to a film that is well underway rather than a rumor. Two date changes show that the schedule has been fluid, but the film itself has not been cancelled or replaced.

Zendaya is reported to voice Felicia, according to Variety Australia on February 28, 2025. Her casting was revealed with a short teaser on that date. The returning voices are reported as Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and Cameron Diaz as Fiona, the same trio that has led every main film since 2001. Newer names are Marcello Hernández as Fergus and Skyler Gisondo as Farkle, reported in November 2025. Conrad Vernon is reported to return as Gingerbread Man (Gingy), and Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstiltskin.

Walt Dohrn, Conrad Vernon and Brad Ableson are reported as directors, with Gina Shay and Chris Meledandri reported as producers. Two of the directors already have history with the saga. Vernon voiced the Gingerbread Man in Shrek (2001), directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and was one of the three directors of Shrek 2 (2004), alongside Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury. Dohrn voiced Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After (2010), directed by Mike Mitchell, the film that closed the main saga before this one. A three-director team also echoes Shrek 2, which was made by three directors and became the biggest earner of the series.

No plot has ever been published for Shrek 5, so there is no earlier version of the story to compare with a later one. What did change was the schedule, from July 2026 to December 23, 2026 to June 30, 2027. DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures have released a teaser, a cast list and a crew list, but no synopsis. The reported character names, Felicia, Fergus and Farkle, are the only story detail attached to the film so far, and how they connect to Shrek and Fiona has not been stated.

Shrek 5 is the fifth main Shrek film and follows Shrek Forever After (2010). The four earlier main films are Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After, and the most recent release in the wider series is the spin-off Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), directed by Joel Crawford. Every main film so far carries a PG rating in the US, according to TMDB.

The box office history shows what Shrek 5 follows. Shrek grossed $489.9 million worldwide on a $60 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo. Shrek 2 then reached $932.5 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, the biggest earner of the series. Shrek the Third, directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui, took $808.3 million on a $160 million budget, and Shrek Forever After took $752.6 million on a $165 million budget. In my reading, that is a steady decline across the three sequels even as budgets rose, and it is the context for a fifth film arriving 17 years after the first. Shrek Forever After also ended on a different note from the earlier films: Shrek, now a settled family man with Fiona and three ogre babies, makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to be a frightening ogre for a day, a story built on missing his old life rather than on a quest. Shrek the Third had sent him with Donkey and Puss in Boots to find Fiona's cousin Artie, and Shrek 2 had sent him to meet Fiona's parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian, in Far Far Away.

The spin-off route has been quieter. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish grossed $480.5 million worldwide on a $110 million budget, and the earlier Puss in Boots (2011) earned $555 million worldwide on a $130 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo. Both are spin-offs, and neither is a main Shrek film.

For anyone who wants to be ready before a second trailer arrives, the Shrek movies in order guide gives the viewing sequence, and the Shrek 5 release date and cast guide follows the status, the date history and the cast as they change. The Shrek cast guide lists who has voiced each character so far.