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Chris Miller Directing Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots 2 For 2018

Antonio Banderas and Chris Miller (not the guy from The LEGO Movie but the one from the Shrek […]

By Russ Burlingame

June 12, 2014, 1:09pm

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Shrek Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives and 40 Thieves

The popular theater-industry Twitter account is rarely wrong, and this story backs up comments made last month by Banderas and Guillermo del Toro that a new Puss in Boots was on the way.

The bad kitty is back! Chris Miller’s PUSS IN BOOTS 2: NINE LIVES & 40 THIEVES reboots (not in that way) Nov. 2, 2018.
— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) June 12, 2014

No additional details yet, but expect DreamWorks to have something to say soon. Recently, the company’s CEO suggested that they weren’t yet done with the Shrek franchise, and star Mike Myers recently said he’d be amenable to returning to the role. Puss in Boots was released in 2011, just after the final Shrek film — Shrek Forever After — hit theaters the year before.