While "Despicable Me 3" won't be arriving in theatres until 2017 according to The Playlist, the studio is rewarding the loyal minions' fans with a spin-off movie about these cute little sidekicks entitled "Minions."
The minions will definitely be back on screen and there's a lot of action going on: they did not exactly live boring lives. And contrary to what many always believed, Gru did not grow them in his lab. Gru won't even be in the film, which is a good thing, because then, we won't get sucked into watching him fail over and over in his experiments (we had two movies for that, time for the minions to tell their side, right?)
In fact, their film will be a history lesson about how these impossibly cute species came to be. The minions will be back on June 26 for their own film, but you don't have to wait that long to see the trailer because it's here. Check it out:
Here are some fun facts we learned from the trailer:
1) They have been here longer than Gru... and longer than the human species, actually: They appeared at a time when Pangea still existed. (Geography review: Pangea is the original continent, which later on split into the seven we know now.) Also, they came out of the water, which, historically speaking, is appropriate, considering that's where most species came out from.
2) They live to serve the most despicable masters they could find: their first one was a T rex. They also need to have a master to serve in order to have purpose. Otherwise, they feel aimless and depressed. As much as they look adorable when they're depressed, you don't want a sad little minion.
3) They have a role in world history: The trailer alone showed that they had a part in making the Pyramids, and that they fought in the Napoleonic wars. Who knows which wonders of the world they (accidentally) helped build, or wars they helped fight?
4) They also know about the world of the supernatural: they served a vampire master, who they accidentally killed when they gave him cake for his 357th birthday. (Again, vampires burn, not sparkle in the sun.)
5) They are multilingual. Website When In Manila wrote that Despicable Me 2 producer John Cohen confirmed that the minions speak a variety of languages, including English, Spanish, French, Greek, Korean, and Filipino.
Bonus fact: According to the Los Angeles Times, we will see the female supervillain they served before they met Gru: Her name is Scarlet Overkill, and she will be voiced by Sandra Bullock.
"Minions" will open sometime in June 2015, featuring the voices of John Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, and Steve Coogan.