Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

***Puss in Boots: The Last Wish*** is a 2022 American computer-animated adventure-comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The sequel to the spin-off film Puss in Boots (2011) and the sixth installment in the Shrek franchise, the film was directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Januel Mercado. Based on the character from Shrek 2 (2004) and inspired by the eponymous fairy tale, the film's screenplay was written by Paul Fisher and Tommy Swerdlow, with a story by Swerdlow and Tom Wheeler (the latter of whom wrote the 2011 film). The voice cast of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish includes Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Pinault reprising their respective roles as the titular character and Kitty Softpaws, and are joined by Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, Samson Kayo, John Mulaney, Wagner Moura, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Anthony Mendez, who voice new characters introduced in the film. In the film, after the events of Shrek Forever After (2010), Puss in Boots teams up with Kitty and Perrito (Guillén) to find the mystical Last Wish for the Wishing Star to restore the first eight of his nine lives, before Goldilocks and her Three Bears Crime Family (Pugh, Winstone, Colman, and Kayo), and "Big" Jack Horner (Mulaney) do, while attempting to avoid a mysterious hooded wolf (Moura). Plans for a sequel to Puss in Boots began in November 2012, when executive producer Guillermo del Toro shared plans to take the titular character on an adventure to a "very exotic locale". Work on a sequel began in April 2014, according to Banderas. After being stuck in development hell, the project was revived in November 2018, with Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri confirmed to be an executive producer. It was announced that the film would be helmed by Bob Persichetti, the head of story of the first film and one of the three directors of Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), in February 2019. Crawford was later announced as the new director in March 2021, along with Mercado. The story draws inspiration from Spaghetti Western films, with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) being cited as a particular influence. As with DreamWorks' previous film The Bad Guys (2022), the film has a stylized animation style, inspired by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. With new technology, the team was able to give the film a painterly style to resemble a fairy-tale story, rather than utilizing the realistic visual style of previous installments in the Shrek franchise.

## Voice Cast

* Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots
* Salma Hayek Pinault as Kitty Softpaws
* Harvey Guillén as Perrito
* Florence Pugh as Goldilocks
* Olivia Colman as Mama Bear
* Ray Winstone as Papa Bear
* Samson Kayo as Baby Bear
* John Mulaney as Jack Horner
* Wagner Moura as Wolf
* Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mama Luna
* Anthony Mendez as Doctor
* Kevin McCann as Ethical Bug
* Bernardo de Paula as Governor
* Betsy Sodaro as Jo Serpent
* Artemis Pebdani as Jan Serpent
* Conrad Vernon as Gingy
* Cody Cameron as Pinocchio
* Kailey Crawford as Little Goldi

### Additional Voices

* Al Rodrigo as Bartender
* Bob Persichetti as Ohhh Cat
* Miguel Matrai as Little Boy
* Bernardo de Paula as Little Boy's Father, Male Partier
* Pilar Uribe as Governor's Assistant, Female Partier
* Heidi Gardner as Last Baker
* Joel Crawford as Band Member, Baker's Dozen Gang Member
* Januel P. Mercado as Band Member, Baker's Dozen Gang Member
* James Ryan as Little Jack Audience Member, Baker's Dozen Gang Member
* Natalia Cronembold as Waitress, Baker's Dozen Gang Member
* Paul Fisher, Aydrea Walden, Betsy Sodaro as Additional Baker's Dozen Gang Members

### ADR Group

* John Bentley
* David Beron
* Ranjani Brow
* William Calvert
* Oscar Camacho
* Vicki Davis
* Jason Griffith
* Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez
* Bridget Hoffman
* Ashley Lambert
* Luisa Leschin
* Janora McDuffie
* Scott Menville
* Richard Miro
* Arthur Ortiz
* Juan Pacheco
* Arianna Quincy
* Al Rodrigo
* Joel Steingold
* Shane Sweet
* Shelby Young