Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Short description
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again continues the story told in Mamma Mia!, set largely on the Greek island of Kalokairi. Sophie Sheridan is preparing to reopen the hotel her mother Donna once ran, and she invites her mother's old friends Rosie and Tanya for support. As she works toward the relaunch, her thoughts turn to Donna's past, and the film moves back to 1979, when a young Donna arrived in Greece and met the three men who would each become a possible father to Sophie.
The 2018 film is directed and written by Ol Parker, the third of the five features he has directed to date, following Imagine Me & You and Now Is Good. Amanda Seyfried returns as Sophie, while Lily James plays the younger Donna; Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård and Christine Baranski are also among the large cast, which numbers 227 credited performers and 124 credited crew members.
Produced by Universal Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Playtone and Littlestar on a budget of 75 million USD, the musical comedy romance earned 395 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6/10 from 120,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.1/10 from 3,636 votes. A film critics' rating stands at 6.4/10 from 274 reviews, lower than the audience scores on both sites. Its 114-minute runtime accommodates the parallel present-day and 1979 storylines.
What's left behind the scenes
- The song "Fernando" is one of the most famous hits by ABBA, as well as one of the best-selling singles in the history of the music industry, but the scriptwriters of both films could not figure out how to insert a song about a fictional Mexican hero from the past into a musical about modern Greece. At the last moment, when the sequel's script was almost ready, they came up with the idea of making Fernando the hotel manager and an old acquaintance of Ruby. This gave Cher the opportunity to perform one of ABBA's biggest hits, which was not used in the first film.
- Julie Walters was given a day off during filming in November 2017 so she could attend the ceremony at Buckingham Palace where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon her the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Upon her return, she was greeted by a choir of crew members and actors performing the song “There Is Nothing Like A Dame” from the South Pacific musical.
- When Julie Walters first saw Cher, she rushed to her and hugged her, although her glasses got caught in Cher's white wig and had to be replaced.
- Cher was officially offered the role of Tanya in the first film, but she turned it down. In this film, she played a different character, at the request of her former agent and old friend Ron Meyer, who had become head of Universal Pictures. Cher claimed she simply couldn't refuse, because Meyer stated on the phone that she had to play the role, and immediately hung up.
- Amanda Seyfried’s agent told her that the film had been given the green light on the day she returned home from the maternity ward after the birth of her daughter. Seyfried thought it was a joke.
- The first time in Meryl Streep’s more than 40-year film career that she has appeared in a sequel.
- Cher began as a singer and is still more known in that capacity today. Nevertheless, along with "Burlesque" (Steve Antin, 2010), this is only the second musical in her career.
- Before starting work on the film, Lily James traveled to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, to visit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
- The film is set on a fictional Greek island, but unlike the first film, it was not filmed in Greece, but on the small Croatian island of Vis.
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