Everybody's Back in the Mamma Mia 2 Poster

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

TheMamma Mia!cast reunites in the poster for the sequel , Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again . A photographic film reading of ABBA ’s bump off Broadway level melodious ( which launched in 1999 ) , the firstMamma Mia!was a smash success that made near twelve time its $ 52 million budget at the global box office in 2008 . There were rumblings of a movie continuation happen for years before the project became prescribed in 2017 , when Universal announced theoriginalMamma Miacast would be reprising their rolesin a followup written and directed by Ol Parker ( Imagine Me & You ) .

Based on theHere We Go Againteaser trailer , theMamma Mia!sequel picks up in existent time some ten years after its predecessor . The film also moves back and off in time , revealing the trueness about what happened between Donna ( played by Lily James as a unseasoned adult female ) and her three boyfriends all those years ago , even as her girl Sophie ( Amanda Seyfried ) prepares to become a mother herself in the present . Here We Go Again ’s puzzler prevue also suggests the older Donna play by Meryl Streep go by sometime prior to the consequence of the sequel . The puzzler postersupports this , symbolizing Donna ’s absence by showing her stylemark overalls without her . ( Presumably , she ’s not just run around somewhere without pants . )

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Streep is sport in theHere We Go Againposter ( see below ) , so it ’s safe to presume that she appears in the actual pic in some form . The poster also include Streep and Seyfried ’s costars from the first movie , including : Pierce Brosnan , Colin Firth , and Stellan Skarsgård as Sophie ’s three papa ; Christine Baranski and Julie Walters as Donna ’s former bandmates ; and Dominic Cooper as Sky , Sophie ’s fiancé ( or peradventure her husband by now ) . Take a flavor , below :

Joining the returningMamma Mia!cast on the post-horse are James as the youthful Donna , along with Jeremy Irvine as young Sam ( Brosnan ) , Hugh Skinner as vernal Harry ( Firth ) , and Josh Dylan as young Bill ( Skarsgård ) . Also along for the ride are Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies as young Tanya and Rose ( Baranski and Walters ) , and Andy Garcia as neophyte Fernando Cienfuegos . Last , but certainly not least , Cher herself is playing Donna ’s motherand Sophie ’s grandmother Ruby , as confirmed by the teaser trailer .

A newMamma Mia ! Here We Go Againtrailer drop online tomorrow and should throw off more light on how Ruby and the other neophyte fit into the subsequence ’s plot of ground . The movie will also include several quondam - school ABBA songs that were n’t part of the originalMamma Mia ! , so it ’s possible that one or more will make a abbreviated appearance in the next prevue . ABBA , which split in 1983 , only just announce they have further written and record their first fresh strain in 35 years and will release them as part of an"avatar turn project " . As unexpected as it may be , it seems ABBA is on the verge of a big comeback in more way than one .