Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2024 film)

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (released internationally as Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation) is a upcoming American animated monster comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Kerner Entertainment Company and release by Walt Disney Pictures. It will be a upcoming of Disney animated feature film, and the sequel to Hotel Transylvania 2 (2018), it was directed by Thurop Van Orman (in his feature directorial debut), written by Matthew Fogel, and features Adam Sandler, Ryan Reynolds, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Sadie Sandler, Jack McBrayer, Keegan-Michael Key, Asher Blinkoff, Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba reprising their roles, with new additions to the cast including Peter Dinklage, Anya Taylor-Joy, Joe Jonas, Chrissy Teigen, Joe Whyte, Tara Strong and Van Orman, while Chris Parnell, who voiced The Fly in the first two films, voices Stan.

It was first time that Walt Disney Animation Studios will be instead animated Sony Pictures Imageworks in Montreal, Canada, at Illumination Studios Paris in France and some additional production assets were borrowed from Jellyfish Pictures.

Discussions for a third Hotel Transylvania film began following its second film release and was announced in January 2022 to be released on November 22, 2024 before being pushed forward for a June 2024 release date. Despite initially leaving the franchise due to his work on Can You Imagine? before eventually being shelved, with Van Orman confirmed his directional debut in June 2022 after receiving inspiration from a "miserable" family vacation and the Chevy Chase National Lampoon's Vacation movies. McCullers was brought on board to write the film, while the rest of the voice cast, including Sandler, Samberg, and Gomez, reprised their roles. The official title was revealed in November 2023.

Premise
In the film, Dracula embarks on a vacation on a luxury cruise liner with his family and friends.

Cast

 * Adam Sandler as Count "Drac" Dracula, Mavis' father, Count Vlad's youngest son, and Dennis’ maternal grandfather. Centuries after the demise of his beloved wife Martha, he ultimately falls for a human woman and proposes to her.
 * Ryan Reynolds as Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran, Mavis' husband, Dracula's son-in-law, and Dennis' human father.
 * Selena Gomez as Mavis Dracula, Drac's daughter, Johnny's wife, and Dennis' vampire mother, from whom he inherited his vampire abilities which he first developed on his fifth birthday, as do all pureblood vampires.
 * Kevin James as Frankenstein, Drac's friend who hangs with Murray.
 * Jack McBrayer as Griffin, Drac, Frank, Wayne and Murray's invisible friend.
 * John C. Reilly as Wayne, a werewolf who is friends with Drac, Frank, Murray and Griffin.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Murray, a mummy who hangs with Frank. Murray was previously voiced by CeeLo Green in the first film.
 * Maya Rudolph as Wanda, Wayne's werewolf wife who is friends with Eunice.
 * Fran Drescher as Eunice, Frank's wife who is friends with Wanda.
 * Asher Blinkoff as Dennis "Dennisovitch" Dracula-Loughran, Mavis and Johnny's dhampir son, Dracula's grandson, and Winnie's love interest. He has his mother's blue eyes and extraordinarily strong vampire abilities, and his father's orange hair and freckles.
 * Taraji P. Henson as Yesss, an algorithm that determines the trending videos on BuzzzTube.
 * Anya Taylor-Joy as Ericka Van Helsing, the captain of the Legacy cruise, Dracula's love interest, and the great granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing.
 * Peter Dinklage as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Ericka's great grandfather and Dracula's former rival.
 * Sadie Sandler as Winnie, the werewolf daughter of Wayne and Wanda. She is Dennis' best friend and mutual love interest. She is later voiced by Zoe Berri in the next film.
 * Idris Elba as Count Vlad, an ancient, more experienced and traditional vampire who is Dracula's father, the late Martha's father-in-law, Mavis' paternal grandfather, Jonathan's grandfather-in-law, and Dennis's maternal great-grandfather. Since the end of the third movie, he is Ericka's father-in-law.
 * Chris Parnell as Stan, a fish-man that works on the Legacy. Parnell previously voiced The Fly in the first two films.
 * Joe Whyte as:
 * Tinkles, Dennis' giant pet puppy.
 * Bob, one of the Gremlins who works as a co-pilot on Gremlins' airlines.
 * Joe Jonas as Kraken, a giant music-loving sea monster that lives near Atlantis.
 * Chrissy Teigen as Crystal, an invisible woman who is Griffin's new girlfriend.
 * Genndy Tartakovsky as:
 * Blobby, a green blob monster. He was previously voiced by Jonny Solomon in Hotel Transylvania 2.
 * Blobby Baby, a spawn of Blobby.
 * Puppy Blobby, Blobby Baby's pet and another spawn of Blobby.
 * Tara Strong as Frankenlady (voiced by Alison Hammond and credited as Frankenginger in the UK release), a female whose right arm is related to Frank from his right hand's side of the family.
 * Jaime Camil as El Chupacabra, a passenger on the Legacy.

Additionally, Tartakovsky, Whyte, Strong, and Teigen also reprised their roles in the French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, and Romanian language dubs of the movie.