Minions will have Kevin, Bob and Stuart, along with a still unreformed, still despicable Gru, back this summer

Universal Pictures' Minions, the spinoff movie and a prequel to the 2010 Despicable Me and the 2013 Despicable Me 2 box office hits, will be released to theaters on July 10. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda from a script penned by Brian Lynch, the 3-D computer-animated comedy movie features Sandra Bullock voicing for main villain Scarlet Overkill and Jon Ham voicing for her husband, the inventor Herb Overkill.

Steve Carrell will be returning to reprise his role as the voice of super-villain Felonious Gru just as director Pierre Coffin will also be reprising the voices of Minions Kevin, Bob and Stuart. Hiroyuki Sanada and Chris Renaud will also be in the cast for still undisclosed roles.

Minions is an origins film. It will show how they evolved from yellow single-cell organisms in the ocean during the time long before the dinosaurs into what they have become now. The minions are by nature drawn to find and serve the most villainous creatures. Unfortunately, because of their ineptitude, their villainous masters will always meet with some unhappy ending. Some of the masters included a T-Rex, an Egyptian pharaoh, a medieval monarch, Attila the Hun and even Dracula. Eventually, they found themselves masterless so they decided to live in the arctic where they can succumb to collective depression. During the 1960s, Minions Kevin, Bob and Stuart decided that it was time for them to find a new villainous master so they went to the villain convention, where they compete for the right to be henchmen for stylish and ambitious Scarlet Overkill who wants nothing less than total world domination. Of course, along the way, mistress and minions will be crossing path with the then still despicable Gru.

Minions was previously scheduled for a December 19, 2014, showing. It was however reset for summer of next year, which would be more in keeping with the commercially successful July releases of the previous Gru-starring films, Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2. The first Gru and Minions movie grossed over $543 million worldwide against a budget of $69 million while the second one made over $970 million worldwide against its budget of $76 million.