It looks like we’re going to get a chance to catch up with our favorite pet detective. It has been announced that Ace Ventura 3 is in development for Amazon from the writers of Sonic the Hedgehog, according to Morgan Creek, the franchise’s production company.
While speaking to Park Circus, the team at Morgan Creek, the production company behind the Ace Ventura movies, says that a new Ace Ventura movie is actively in development from the writers of Jim Carrey’s most recent movie, Sonic the Hedgehog. Here is their full statement:
“Titles such as Ace Ventura, Major League, Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Diabolique, and Nightbreed are a few examples of multi-platform projects on the fast-track for reinvention. COVID, audiences have been in love and are thrilled to have beloved characters brought back with new stories. Ace Ventura will see a new day at Amazon as a major motion-picture/theatrical with the Sonic the Hedgehog writers.”
Morgan Creek doesn’t mention of Jim Carrey is returning or whether Ace Ventura 3 will be a sequel or a reboot. The assumption, and hope, would be that Carrey is on board, especially given the connection to Sonic the Hedgehog but nothing official as of yet.
The first Ace Ventura was released in 1994 and helped launch its star Jim Carrey as one of the biggest Hollywood names of the 1990s. An Africa-set sequel, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls quickly followed the next year, and both movies are widely regarded among the funniest to come from that decade by fans even though critics were never pleased with them. Both films were highly successful at the box office.
