“Ice Age 6” Is Coming Soon with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah and Denis Leary: 'The Herd Is Back'
The animated franchise kicked off with the 2002 Oscar-nominated original
Ice Age 6 is cooking up to be another mammoth-size sequel.
At D23 Brazil on Friday, Nov. 8, Disney and 20th Century Animation confirmed that a sixth Ice Age movie is in the works.
The voice cast will see the return of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Simon Pegg for an "all-new big screen adventure."
To help break the news, Romano, 66, Leguizamo, 64, and Latifah, 54, appeared in a video, shared on Instagram. "The herd is back, baby. I gotta call everybody I know," Leguizamo says in the clip.
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The hit animated franchise began with the Oscar-nominated original in 2002. (The film came from 20th Century Fox, which Disney bought in 2019.)
Its sequels were: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).
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In the films, Romano plays a wooly mammoth named Manny, Latifah is his love interest Ellie, Leguizamo is the sloth Sid, Leary is a saber-tooth tiger called Diego, and Pegg is a weasel named Buck.
The Ice Age films and shorts are currently streaming on Disney+.