The fifth film in the stunt-comedy franchise will hit theaters in June.

Johnny Knoxville reveals new Jackass movie set for summer release: ‘Starting the year off with a bang’

The fifth film in the stunt-comedy franchise will hit theaters in June.

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January 8, 2026 12:58 p.m. ET

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Johnny Knoxville in 'Jackass Forever'. Credit:

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Summer 2026 is the season of *Jackass*, according to Johnny Knoxville.

The 54-year-old co-creator of the stunt-comedy franchise surprised fans on Wednesday when he took to Instagram to announce that another installment was on the way, four years after the release of *Jackass Forever*.

"Well a wang dang and hot damn doodle, we are starting the year off with a bang," Knoxville captioned a two-part post featuring a photo of the franchise's logo with a graphic that reads "june 26th," as well as a photo of himself on the second slide. "We wanted to let you know that this summer *Jackass* is back!! We will see you in theaters June 26th."

Knoxville added that there's "more to come," but he wanted fans to "hear it from us first!!"

Johnny Knoxville.

Johnny Knoxville/Instagram

While Knoxville hasn't shared any other info on the upcoming film, *Variety* and Deadline have confirmed that the movie is a brand new entry in the long-running series.

The news was a happy surprise for fans of the franchise, including former stars of previous installments like Chris Pontius and Steve-O, the latter whom commented on the post, "Yeah dude!!!"

"Hooray!" Pontius wrote, along with a laughing emoji.**

The two starred in 2022's *Jackass Forever* with Knoxville, as well as Dave England, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, and a number of celebrity guests.

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Many assumed that after a *Jackass Forever *stunt left Knoxville with one of his most serious injuries to date that he wouldn't return to the franchise that dubbed him the reigning king of death-defying stunts. This particular stunt involved him getting rammed and thrown into the air by a bull, which resulted in Knoxville suffering a concussion, a broken wrist, and a broken rib.

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"After the last concussion on *Jackass Forever*, which really gave me problems for six months," Knoxville told Michael Rosenbaum during an appearance on his *Inside of You *podcast in 2024, "I can imagine how it scared my kids."

The former struggling actor explained that "it was a traumatic brain injury with a concussion, brain hemorrhage, and I broke my wrist and ribs. Then the neurologist was like, 'You can't have another concussion.'" The daredevil told his kids, "'Look, Dad's not gonna do that anymore.'"

Johnny Knoxville in 'Jackass: The Movie'. Everett Collection.

Some of Knoxville's stunts could potentially be fatal if executed incorrectly, but he "doesn't say my when my life's at risk, because I don't want to put that in their head."

After three seasons of MTV's first iteration of the *Jackass *TV show, a handful of TV specials, and roughly 10 films, Knoxville admitted to Rosenbaum that he got "addicted" to death-defying stunt work: "I think I did get addicted, eventually. The big stunts I got addicted to, and I'm still dealing with that."

But as Knoxville told Rosenbaum, you "can't walk into a stunt being frightened of death," because "if you go into a stunt and you don't commit, it's really gonna be bad."**

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