In an interview with The Hollywood News, Trolls directors Walt Dohrn (writer of Shrek 2) and Mike Mitchell (director of Shrek Forever After) revealed that DreamWorks Animation has hired screenwriter Michael McCullers (The Boss Baby, Baby Mama) to pen Shrek 5.
SNL vet McCullers is a longtime Mike Myers associate, having written the second and third Austin Powers movies with him as well as the unproduced movie version of Sprockets.
“It’s being written by Michael McCullers who wrote all of the ‘Austin Powers’ films.
It was followed 17 months later by the Puss in Boots spin-off, which also fared better overseas than in North America.