Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

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Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Become Over again has caused much excitement since it was announced, and now that's it's released in cinemas it'southward about to get even more than crazy.

When the start trailer dropped fans wondered where Meryl Streep was, and so in the second trailer she cropped upwardly in flashbacks - she was on posters and the soundtrack.

That didn't stop the unease - was Donna dead?

Last chance here.

Aye, as the trailer unsaid Donna is dead in Mamma Mia 2. Good day Donna Sheridan, her legacy lives on in her hotel.

What happens to Donna in Mamma Mia 2?

Meryl Streep in the first motion-picture show (

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The moving picture begins with Sophie getting fix to reopen the hotel, now called Bella Donna, in that location'south photos of her mum everywhere and information technology's adequately obvious where it's going.

Sophie talks to the hotel manager (Andy Garcia) and information technology's confirmed - Donna is expressionless.

Her cause of death is never explained or really fifty-fifty hinted at.

The outset nosotros see of Donna she's a immature matter, played past Lily James.

Nosotros larn that Donna graduated course Oxford and headed to Greece to the island of Kalokairi, which is where we found her in the showtime movie.

If you're looking for answers every bit to how she died, there aren't any, but that just fits with the whole Mamma Mia movie vibe though. Sophie wants to find out who her dad is in the first moving picture, but in the cease she just lets all three become her dad. Here Donna dies - a pretty serious thing - simply hey, how it happens isn't what matters, it's just how they can all come up together in the wake of it.

Don't worry though you lot practise get to meet Donna near the end of the picture in an emotional scene with the rest of the bandage. We won't spoil how.

Meryl Streep returns... (

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So why did it happen?

Meryl Streep was fine with the conclusion to kill off the main grapheme of the first movie, and director Ol Parker says it wasn't down to schedules.

"If it had worked out that Meryl was going to exist the lead for the whole thing, then they would take waited for a time when Meryl could exist the lead for the whole thing," he told Vulture .

For Parker information technology was near finding the best story and this was it.

Why Godfather Two influenced Mamma Mia

Richard Curtis is the one to arraign here, and his girl Scarlett...and The Godfather Part II.

Parker got an email from Curtis one twenty-four hours out of the bluish asking: "Random question: exercise you like ABBA?"

Parker thought he was being invited to dinner with the Swedish pop group, but instead he was being asked to write a sequel.

Curtis already had ideas and his daughter had suggested information technology should be Godfather Two pregnant it was a prequel actually. Cue an exploration of Donna's backstory.

In Parker's mind Donna had to die.

Meryl Streep looks ameliorate than Robert de Niro though (

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"I think it'southward the nearly meaningful and emotional and impactful way to tell that story and this was my suggestion," he said.

Meryl was told and manifestly was "thrilled".

The thought was sorted - Lily James substantially became Robert de Niro, Amanda Seyfried is Al Pacino.

Every bit to why Donna slept with all three men, for Parker he needed unlike reasons.

Harry was comedic and charming, Sam was a love story and Bill was to help her and to pick her back up.

Lily James was originally on the publicity tour for Babe Driver when Parker was looking for his young Donna, just he waited, sure information technology had to be her.

He "knew it on a handshake."