The Smurfs 3 (2025 film)

The Smurfs 3 is a 2025 computer-animated jukebox musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Jim Henson Company, LAFIG Belgium, IMPS, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It will be a upcoming of Disney animated feature film, based on the comic books series by Peyo, the sequel of The Smurfs 2 (2022), serving as the third and final installment in its film trilogy, it was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, co-directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Garth Jennings, produced by Clark Spencer, Brian Henson, Toby Ascher, for a writers by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, Jared Bush, Phil Johnston, and Matthew Fogel.

Plans for a third The Smurfs film were announced in April 2022 by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Production was underway in July 2022.

Development
In April 2022, The Jim Henson Company and Walt Disney Animation Studios had been in development of a third of The Smurfs (2016) film after The Smurfs 2 (2022), with Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic confirmed for directing the film.