HE’S READY TO STEAL CHRISTMAS AGAIN! 🎄😱 Nearly 25 years after becoming the most iconic Grinch in movie history, Jim Carrey is reportedly in talks for a long-awaited sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas—and fans are losing their minds. 💚✨ Rumors of a return have circulated for years, but new developments suggest the beloved holiday classic could finally be getting the follow-up audiences have been waiting for. What would a modern Grinch look like, which original stars could return, and why is Hollywood suddenly revisiting Whoville now? 🎬

Jim Carrey is gearing up to steal Christmas again.

The actor, 64, is in talks to reprise his role as the Grinch in a long-rumored sequel to 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Ron Howard is expected to return as director after helming the 2000 holiday comedy, which starred Carrey as Dr. Seuss’ iconic character. Howard, 72, will also produce alongside his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A Thursday, June 18 Instagram post from the director and Imagine Entertainment confirmed the news, captioning a photo of Carrey in Grinch mode on set, “He’s a mean one… 💚 A sequel to How The Grinch Stole Christmas is in development.”

 

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The still-untitled film will reportedly be written by Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel, the team behind the Mike Myers-starring 2003 Seuss adaptation The Cat in the Hat.

Universal Pictures’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, adapted from Seuss’ 1957 children’s book of the same name, costarred Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Taylor Momsen, Molly Shannon and narrator Anthony Hopkins. It was a box office hit, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2000 domestically. At the 2001 Academy Awards ceremony it won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

According to ComicBook, Carrey, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance, qualified for the strict guidelines set by the estate of Seuss, who died in 1991. A letter from the estate specifying that the Grinch had to be of a very particular height and frame included examples of actors who would fit the characteristics, including Carrey and Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman.

The Liar Liar star said in December 2024 in an interview with ComicBook that he’d be open to playing the Grinch again — “if we could figure out” the character’s green fur and heavy prosthetics.

“The thing about it is, on the day, I do that with a ton of makeup and can hardly breathe. It was an extremely excruciating process,” he said at the time. “The children were in my mind all the time. ‘It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids. It’s for the kids.’ And now, with motion capture and things like that, I could be free to do other things. Anything is possible in this world.”

Last October, it was reported that Carrey was in talks to star in a live-action movie adaptation of The Jetsons. The Golden Globe winner will reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (in theaters March 19, 2027).