Thomas 5

The 5th Thomas Film is an upcoming Thomas film that was announced in July 2018 by DreamWorks Animation as what would be the fifth installment in the Thomas the Tank Engine franchise and sequel to Thomas: Gordon Returns. The plot is currently unknown and is being retooled as a reboot for an unspecified release date.

Development
In December 2005, it was announced that there would be 3 more Thomas films after Thomas the Great Discovery and Thomas and Tillie, however in July 2009, the fifth film was lost and fell out of development.

Then, following the sale in 2016 of DreamWorks Animation to NBCUniversal, a part of Comcast, Mike Mitchell and Tom McGrath were interviewed about a reboot of the Thomas series and considered doing reboots of Thomas and James. they revealed that the story will be written by Alex and Ariel Hirshe.