The franchise’s last installment came out in 2022
It’s official – Jackass is back.
On Thursday, franchise star Johnny Knoxville confirmed that Jackass 5 is coming to theaters this summer. The latest installment in the franchise comes out on June 26 and will be an original film with all-new material. It marks the franchise’s first theatrical installment since 2022’s Jackass Forever.
On social media, Knoxville said, “Well a wang dang and hot damn doodle, we are starting the year off with a bang. We wanted to let you know that this summer Jackass is back! We will see you in theaters June 26. More to come but wanted you to hear it from us first!”
The announcement lands as a reminder of how unusually durable the Jackass brand has been since it jumped from MTV’s chaos-engine TV format to movie theaters. The core film run began with Jackass: The Movie (2002)—the proof-of-concept that the crew’s DIY stunt tapes could scale into a box-office event—then expanded with Jackass Number Two (2006) and Jackass 3D (2010), the latter turning the series’ flying objects, body slams, and slapstick collisions into a 3D gimmick that actually fit the material. The franchise also spun into theatrical and streaming-side branches: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) (the hidden-camera/character hybrid built around Knoxville’s Irving Zisman) and the “.5” projects that collect unused footage—most recently Jackass 4.5, released after Forever.
Across those films, the “stars” were less traditional actors than a rotating gang of friends and collaborators anchored by Knoxville, with Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, “Danger Ehren” McGhehey, Preston Lacy, Bam Margera, and Ryan Dunn forming the most recognizable core for fans who grew up on MTV-era “Jackass.” The big shift in Jackass Forever (2022) was that it functioned simultaneously as a reunion and a handoff: it brought back several originals while adding newer faces like Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Rachel Wolfson, and Eric Manaka, plus a parade of celebrity guests, and it also carried the franchise’s most visible absences—Ryan Dunn, who died in 2011, and Bam Margera, who was not a primary cast member in the finished film.
As for where the key players are now, Knoxville has increasingly balanced “Jackass” with more conventional entertainment work—while still being the guy audiences associate with willingly detonating his own comfort and cartilage. In recent coverage around the Jackass 5 announcement, reporting has again referenced the very real physical toll he’s discussed after “Forever,” even as he keeps lining up new projects; most notably, he has been tapped to host Fox’s Fear Factor reboot (branded as Fear Factor: The Next Chapter/House of Fear in various materials), a job that basically turns his daredevil persona into a weekly network format. Steve-O, meanwhile, has leaned hard into being a touring stand-up and media personality—maintaining an active comedy schedule and running his long-form Wild Ride podcast operation as a central platform for his post-Jackass career.
For the rest of the classic ensemble, the simplest truth is that “Jackass” has always operated like a band with side projects—everyone splinters off, then reconvenes when the call goes out. Pontius and Steve-O have remained publicly connected enough that Knoxville has been photographed and written up showing support for their live comedy appearances, reinforcing the idea that the original relationships are intact even when the cameras aren’t rolling. Some members keep a lower profile than the frontmen, but they still orbit the brand through tours, appearances, and occasional reunions—exactly the kind of low-key continuity that makes a new installment feel plausible even after long gaps.
The most decisive “will he/won’t he” question around any new Jackass installment, though, remains Bam Margera—and right now, the public answer is about as clear as it gets. In a 2025 interview cycle, Margera said flatly that he has no interest in returning, framing the fallout from his Forever-era situation as something that can’t be undone and suggesting that no amount of money would change his mind. By contrast, Ryan Dunn is a permanent absence whose legacy still hangs over the later films simply because he was so central to the early chemistry; any new Jackass movie inevitably functions without him, as “Forever” already did.
So who is confirmed for the June 26, 2026 movie right now? Publicly, the only firm on-the-record certainty is Knoxville’s involvement, because the announcement itself comes from him and is being treated as his return to the franchise. Beyond that, the reporting around the date stresses that no additional official details—title, full cast list, or specifics of the lineup—have been formally announced yet, even though fans (including fellow cast) have loudly reacted online. The safest read, based on how Forever was structured, is that Paramount and the filmmakers could again blend returning originals with newer “fresh blood,” but until trades or Paramount make it explicit, everyone besides Knoxville sits in the “likely, but unconfirmed” column—while Bam, by his own words, is the rare case that currently looks like a genuine “no.”
