The Angry Birds Movie 3 Trailer Reveals Red's New Challenge: Fatherhood

Paramount Pictures has released the first official trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 3, and the franchise has clearly decided that saving Bird Island isn't Red's hardest job anymore — being a dad is. What's in the trailer Jason Sudeikis returns as Red, now navigating parenthood alongside saving the world, according to the film's official synopsis. The trailer opens with a fake-out — a gladiatorial showdown that quickly cuts to Red dropping his kids off at school, where his son Glider rattles off a list of "cooler" birds with celebrity-inspired puns. Returning favorites Bomb (Danny McBride) and Chuck deal with a diaper crisis involving Red's youngest, Olly — a sequence one outlet flagged for having more bathroom humor than expected, including Bomb's quip comparing a baby's bodily functions to "the Bellagio fountain." Severe Weather Europe Who's involved John Rice, who co-directed The Angry Birds Movie 2, takes over as director this time, working from a screenplay by that film's co-director, Thurop Van Orman. The voice cast has expanded considerably: alongside Sudeikis, Josh Gad, and Rachel Bloom, the film adds Emma Myers, Walker Scobell, Tim Robinson, Keke Palmer, Lily James, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and a notable cluster of internet personalities — including MrBeast and Salish Matter — joining the cast in new roles. Smosh's Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox return as Hal and Bubbles. Why it's taking this long to get here The Angry Birds Movie 3 has had an unusually bumpy road to the screen. A third film was first rumored back in 2020, with Sony originally attached to produce. The project changed hands when Sega — which acquired Rovio Entertainment for roughly $776 million in 2023 — took over production through Sega Sammy Group, alongside Prime Focus Studios and DNEG handling animation. That ownership churn, combined with a pandemic-era gap since the 2019 sequel, explains the seven-year wait between films — and explains why so much fan speculation and even fake AI-generated "leaked trailers" circulated online in the years before this one was real. Why it matters The bigger story here isn't really the diaper jokes — it's what Paramount is betting on. The first two Angry Birds films combined for over half a billion dollars worldwide, and Paramount is leaning on exactly that built-in audience at a moment when the studio is absorbing Warner Bros. Discovery in a $111 billion deal and needs reliable family-franchise revenue. Stacking the cast with creators like MrBeast also signals a now-standard strategy: borrowing built-in online audiences to market an animated sequel to a generation that didn't necessarily grow up with the mobile game. The Angry Birds Movie 3 opens in theaters December 23, 2026.