At long, long last, the news we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived — Bluey: The Movie is happening, for real life. Hooray! Taking to Twitter/X earlier today, the official Bluey account confirmed that the beloved children’s animated TV show — which centres around the adventures of Australian canine family The Heelers — is following up its extended Season 3 finale ‘The Sign’ with a feature-length film, set to hit cinemas in 2027.
Per an official press release on the Bluey website, BBC Studios, The Walt Disney Company, and Ludo Studio are working with the show’s writer-director and creator Joe Brumm to bring the exploits of Bluey, her sister Bingo, and their parents Bandit and Chilli to the big screen. Though plot details are yet to be confirmed, we know that series regulars including Melanie Zanetti and David McCormack will reprise their roles from the show, while composer Joff Bush will be handling the score. What’s more, the movie is interestingly being tagged as a CG production — though whether that’ll mean a departure from the series’ signature 2D style remains to be seen.
Now, Bluey: The Movie being an actual thing that’s actually happening is good news — great news. For millions of children, parents, and people with generally good taste in television and a desire to be decent people, the show has — over the span of 154 episodes, a bunch of minisodes, and even a video game — been a revelation: a genuinely fun, genuinely thoughtful, oftentimes quietly revolutionary creation that embraces understanding, love, and healthy relationships fostered through healthy communication. But, alongside today’s big movie announcement, showrunner Joe Brumm has also shared a somewhat more trifficult bit of news in an open letter accompanying his film’s announcement.
Writing about the future of Bluey beyond this film, Brumm said the following: “I always said I wouldn’t keep making the show if I thought I couldn’t make any new season as good as the last. This would have been the case for me with a potential season four, so I’ve decided to take a break from my involvement in the TV series. In the event I can’t wrap my head around doing more seasons myself, ‘The Sign’ will mark my TV finale for Bluey and I wrote it as such. Bluey has completely changed my life. It’s been an immensely satisfying thing to be a part of, more than I can really put into words. To walk away from it while it’s at such a height will seem crazy to some but, for now, I am finding it difficult to reach back genuinely into that four to six year old world and write authentically.”
Ah, biscuits! Though Brumm is quick to state that “this is not an announcement about the end of the show, but it is an acknowledgment that my focus will be on the film,” the implication is quite plain to see — Bluey as we’ve known and loved it for three seasons thus far is coming to an end as the Heelers’ handlers at Ludo Studio weigh up what comes next. But as a wise Chilli once sort of said, sometimes special TV shows come into our lives, stay for a bit, and then they have to go. And if Bluey: The Movie is the end of something, then at least the bit where it was here was happy. But until we know more, we’ll catch you front row of the cinema in 2027, dudes!