On Sunday, Illumination and Universal Pictures debuted the official trailer for Despicable Me 4 — the next installment of the highest-grossing animated franchise in history. The CG-animated supervillain adventure will make things “a little more despicable” in theaters July 3.
Following the 2022 summer prequel hit Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, DM4 sees Gru (Oscar nominee Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Oscar nominee Kristen Wiig) and their girls — Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan) — welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.
This happy home of reformed infamy is turned upside down when Gru’s new nemesis arises in Maxime Le Mal (Emmy winner Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend, Valentina (Emmy nominee Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.
The film also features new characters voiced by Joey King (Bullet Train), Emmy winner Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live). Pierre Coffin returns as the iconic voice of the Minions and Oscar nominee Steve Coogan returns as Silas Ramsbottom.
Despicable Me 4 is directed by a co-creator of the Minions, Oscar nominee Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets), and is produced by Illumination’s founder & CEO Chris Meledandri and by Brett Hoffman (executive producer: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru). The film is co-directed by Patrick Delage (animation director: Sing 2, The Secret Life of Pets 2), and the screenplay is by the Emmy-winning creator of White Lotus, Mike White (Migration), and the veteran writer of every Despicable Me film, Ken Daurio.
