Shield 3 is a 2017 American Action Science Fiction Space Opera Horror Thriller film written and directed by J. J. Abrams. It is a sequel to both 2012's Shield and 2014's Shield 2. It stars Emily Blunt, Ron Perlman, Asa Butterfield, Keith David, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Ironside, Thomas Kretschmann, John Hurt and Frank Welker. John Williams returned to compose the saga's score for the last time.