By Mallory Mattingly
Actor Emilio Estevez explained on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast why he wrote a script for MIGHTY DUCKS 4 after seeing what Disney+ did with the THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS series.
“I also wrote MIGHTY DUCKS 4,’” Estevez said on the podcast. “I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the GAME CHANGERS series.”
Estevez played coach Gordon Bombay in the 1992 MIGHTY DUCKS, which followed a “A self-centered Minnesota lawyer…sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.” He reprised the role in two sequel films and Disney+’s 2021 GAME CHANGERS series. However, when it came time to film Season 2, Estevez decided to part ways with the show because of the “ABC signature’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement,” according to Variety.
He’s since written a spec script for a fourth MIGHTY DUCKS, but Disney isn’t interested.
“[It’s] a feature script that had coach Bombay coming back, being pulled back in by Joshua Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character and to coach a new team, an expansion team, for the professional women’s hockey league,” he described. “So, it would be an all-girl team. Now, when we discover Bombay, he’s coaching roller derby, and so he says, ‘My girls are going with me. They have to have a shot.’ It was charming and contemporary and cool and organically of the moment. It’s where we’re at..Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that.’”
Estevez recently talked about another reunion the movie THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
“It’s kicking and screaming,” Estevez said, according to PEOPLE, regarding the reunion he eventually agreed to. “This is something that I’ve…to use the word ‘avoid’ is not the correct word to use, it just hasn’t been top of mind.”
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“I’ve famously rejected reunions, whether it was a REPO MAN reunion or an OUTSIDERS reunion or SAINT ELMO’S,” he added. “I’ve been very blessed to be part of these amazing ensembles for films that have sort of transcended generations. It’s a blessing on one hand, but then it’s like, okay, the movie had an impact, and it continues to. So therefore, there must be a reunion.”
Why does he typically reject reunions? They just aren’t his thing.
“I’ve said this in the past. I’ve always wanted to look and move forward,” he said in the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “I’ve… never wanted to look in my rearview mirror and talk about what I’ve done. If you walk into my house, you don’t know what I do for a living. Right? Because there’s no movie posters. There’s no memorabilia.”
While Estevez might not be a fan of reunion films, MIGHTY DUCKS was one project he felt like he needed to jump in and save what he and the cast built. Unfortunately, Disney didn’t bite.
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