The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 3

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***The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 3*** is a 2027 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is the sequel to *The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 2* (2018) and the third installment in *The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl* franchise. Directed by Joel Crawford and written by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, and William Schifrin from a story by Schifrin, the film features Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, Peter Dinklage, Leslie Mann, and Kelly Marie Tran reprising their roles from the first two films. Cloris Leachman, who voiced Gran in the first two films, died in February 2021, and is replaced here by Laraine Newman, who previously voiced the character in the traditionally animated Netflix prequel series *Dawn of the Croods*. They are all joined in by new additions to the cast including Walton Goggins, Anthony Anderson, Max Greenfield, Natasha Rothwell, and Jason Bateman.

Following the success of *The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 3*, Sony Pictures Animation expressed interest in making a second sequel to ***The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 3***, with Crawford returning as director and Mark Swift returning as producer. Development on the film began in early 2022, with the majority of the voice actors signing on in July that year. By November of 2023, it was reported that Reiff, Voris, and Schifrin had signed on as writers, and that Breay and Jenkins had replaced Swift as producers. Production lasted until mid-2026.

*The Adventures of SharkBoy and LavaGirl 3* was released on June 11, 2027, in the United States. It grossed over $283 million worldwide on an $80 million budget and received generally positive reviews for the animation, cast, and score. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

## Cast

* Cayden Boyd as Max. An imaginative 10-year-old boy, known as the "day-dreamer" on Planet Drool. "At first he's dreaming all for himself; he wants Shark Boy and Lava Girl to take him away", Boyd said about the role. "I like that he's selfish in the beginning and he's not selfish in the end".[6]
* Taylor Lautner as Sharkboy. Lautner said about the character, "He's very self-confident and sometimes his confidence gets him into trouble. He's also kinda jealous of the character, Max, because he has an inside crush on Lavagirl and she's overly motherly to Max."[7] Lautner's martial arts skills helped him to obtain the role of Sharkboy. "When I auditioned for the film, Robert Rodriguez, the director, didn't know that I had my martial arts [background], and while we were there in Austin, TX he saw a DVD of me and asked me to choreograph my own fight scenes", said Lautner.[8] Lautner was the first to audition for the film, says Rodriguez, and was chosen immediately.[9]
* Taylor Dooley as Lavagirl. The role was cast after the two other main characters, Sharkboy and Max had already been cast.[6] Her lava bike was computer-generated, like many of the elements in the film; Dooley and Lautner described the on-set versions of the lava bike and Sharkboy's shark-themed jetski as "a green box with handles".[10]
* David Arquette and Kristin Davis play Max's parents. Max's father is an unemployed writer. They are on the brink of a divorce. They mean well for Max but are unable to settle his troubles. On Planet Drool, Max's parents appear as a pair of "Cookie Giants" who live happily in the Land of Milk and Cookies.
* George Lopez as Mr. Electricidad, Mr. Electric, and the voices of Tobor and the Ice Guardian. Mr. Electricidad is Max's teacher. Mr. Electric is Planet Drool's corrupt electrician. Tobor is an unfinished robot of Max that resided in the Dream Graveyard. The Ice Guardian is an inhabitant of the Ice Kingdom. Rodriguez states that he kept asking Lopez to play additional characters. Lopez spent a total of two weeks working on the film.[11]
* Jacob Davich as Linus / Minus. He is a bully at Max's school and steals his Dream Journal. With it, he enters Max's dreamworld and, using the name "Minus" (a nickname bestowed by Mr. Electricidad for Linus' habit of disliked conduct), alters it to his version before ultimately befriending Max.
* Sasha Pieterse as Marissa Electricidad / Ice Princess. Marissa is the daughter of Mr. Electricidad, and at first, the only student who befriends Max. On Planet Drool, she appears as the Ice Princess, the ruler of the Ice Kingdom and keeper of the Crystal Heart, a necklace she wears that can freeze anything including time.
* Robert Rodriguez has a role voicing a shark. As seen in the credits, two of Robert Rodriguez's children, Rebel and Racer, portray Sharkboy at age five and age seven respectively. Rico Torres plays Sharkboy's father. Marc Musso and Shane Graham play children at Max's school.