So you know the other day I made a joke that Chris Sanders being hired at DreamWorks to work on an original movie will save us from "Shrek 5" (See News: Chris Sanders Update)?
Well, I was wrong. Kind of.
As you know, "Shrek the Third" opens May 18th, 2007 and the Variety article I stole quoted says that "Shrek 4" is scheduled for the first half of 2010.
Well I forgot that ABC announced last fall that they're buying an all-new half-hour holiday special "Shrek The Halls" from DreamWorks for this December.
(And yes, ironically ABC is owned Disney, which is DreamWorks Animation's main competitor).
So, although it's not a full-length feature, I'm counting it.
At least this special is directed by "Beauty and the Beast" and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"'s Gary Trousdale, who's a funny dude. He also directed the short film "The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper" that was before the Wallace and Gromit feature, and the hilarious Cranium Command pre-show at Epcot.
But still, that there's just too much Shrek for me to handle.
