{"id":10737,"date":"2026-06-18T23:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:26:29","slug":"the-grinch-sequel-in-the-works-at-universal-jim-carrey-and-ron-howard-in-talks-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/the-grinch-sequel-in-the-works-at-universal-jim-carrey-and-ron-howard-in-talks-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grinch Sequel In The Works At Universal \u2014 Jim Carrey And Ron Howard In Talks To Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-grinch-sequel-in-the-works-at-universal-jim-carrey-and-ron-howard-in-talks-to-return.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>We come bearing news, bearing news of a sequel. Not a prequel, nor requel, but a very real sequel. A follow-up to a movie from the year of 2000, about the Whos down in Whoville and a Grinch on a mountain. As <em>THR<\/em> reports, there will be <em>How The Grinch Stole Christmas 2<\/em>. And Ron Howard&#8217;s coming back, and Jim Carrey\u2019s coming, too \u2014 at least if the talks they&#8217;ve been talking go through. Plus what&#8217;s more, if you can even believe, Universal and Imagine Entertainment have already found writers \u2014 one, two, and three.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p><em>*Ahem*<\/em> Er, sorry, we came over all Seussical for a moment there. But yes! Ron Howard&#8217;s iconic live-action festive fave <em>How The Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em>, a blockbuster take on Dr. Seuss&#8217; lyrical literary classic, is officially getting a sequel some quarter of a century later. Both director Howard and OG star Carrey, who infamously spent up to eight hours a day in make-up over the course of a gruelling 24-month shoot, are already in discussions for more Grinching shenanigans, with Howard&#8217;s Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer also up for returning as producer. And as for the above-mentioned writers one, two, and three, <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> writing trio Alec Berg&nbsp;,&nbsp;Jeff Schaffer, and&nbsp;David Mandel \u2014 who previously penned cult Mike Myers starring Seuss movie <em>The Cat In The Hat<\/em> \u2014 are working on the as-yet-untitled <em>Grinch 2<\/em> screenplay.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t yet know what a <em>How The Grinch Stole Christmas<\/em> sequel will look like (the green grump has, after all, stolen Christmas, put it back, and redeemed himself at this point \u2014 and Seuss\u2019 own effort, <em>How The Grinch Lost Christmas<\/em>, isn\u2019t exactly a five-bauble follow-up), or whether we can expect to see Cindy Lou Who or any of the first movie&#8217;s other beloved characters again in this surprise follow-up. What we do know however is that the first film remains a perennial Christmas classic, the Illumination animation with Benedict Cumberbatch really only served as a reminder of just how good Carrey is in the 2000 movie, and despite not having a clue how this will all work, we are <em>fascinated<\/em> to find out. After all, as The Grinch himself once observed, saving Christmas is a lousy ending, way too commercial&#8230; so watch this space!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-links-container\" data-test=\"source-links\">\n<h2 class=\"sourceUrl_h2__0dV2J\">Sources Links<\/h2>\n<p>THR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We come bearing news, bearing news of a sequel. Not a prequel, nor requel, but a very real sequel. A follow-up to a movie from the year of 2000, about the Whos down in Whoville and a Grinch on a mountain. As THR reports, there will be How The Grinch Stole Christmas 2. And Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}