After the huge, $259 million plus box office haul of Pitch Perfect 2, another entry was aca-inevitable. Less certain was director/producer/actor Elizabeth Banks coming back for another crack behind and in front of the camera, given that she was being offered other high profile jobs. But she’s sticking with the franchise she helped create, signing on to call the shots and songs for the third.
And she’ll have plenty of familiar faces around her, as Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow are all confirmed to return, alongside writer Kay Cannon, who is already at work on the third script. As for what will happen in the film? No one is saying yet, though they’ll have to find some way to have Kendrick’s Beca and Wilson’s Fat Amy come back since they – spoiler warning – graduated at the end of the latest movie. Still, we’re sure there’s an easy enough way to have the characters able to interact with whoever else is hired, and there’s always a chance we’ll have more from Hailee Steinfeld’s Emily.
Banks is in demand as a director right now, and is attached to potentially make YA adaptation Red Queen for Universal and Sony’s latest attempt to bring Charlie’s Angels back to the big screen. Both of those still have some developing to do, though, and the Pitch Perfect universe is ready to go. Not forgetting that Universal wants it in cinemas on August 4, 2017…