For their fifteenth feature-film collaboration, Illumination and Universal Pictures present Despicable Me 4, the next chapter in the highest-grossing animated franchise reuniting Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Miranda Cosgrove, and Steve Coogan. Illumination founder Chris Meledandri is producing the film directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 1 and 2, The Lorax, The Secret Lives of Pets 1 and 2), co-directed by Patrick Delage (animation director of Sing, Sing 2, The Secret Life of Pets 2), with an original script by Mike White (School of Rock, White Lotus).