Exclusive: Naveen Paddock (New Amsterdam) is set as a series regular opposite Josh Duhamel and Lauren Graham for the upcoming second season of Disney+’s The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Additionally, Margot Anderson-Song (Defending Jacob), Noah Baird (A Christmas Story Live), Stephnie Weir (A Million Little Things), Connor DeWolfe, Timm Sharp (Enlightened) and Tiffany Denise Hobbs (Claws) have been cast in heavily recurring roles on the Disney Branded Television series produced by ABC Signature.
In Season 2, after winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with...
In Season 2, after winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with...
- 3/25/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
After Emilio Estevez wrapped up his time as Gordon Bombay in 1996 for D3: The Mighty Ducks, he shifted his focus from acting to directing. More than twenty years after the final Ducks movie, The Public and Culture Clash in AmericCCa director now says the Disney+ reboot series is his chance to get back into on-screen spotlight.
“It’s interesting to come back now using The Mighty Ducks as a re-entry vehicle,” the actor-director said during Disney+’s TCA panel on Wednesday.
He said that he told series executive producer Steve Brill he would only join the show “if we can capture the films fo the franchise, if we can create a cinematic experience and not just try to cash in on the nostalgia aspect of it.” After working in all 10 episodes of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Estevez said he and the rest of the team did just that.
Co-created by Brill,...
“It’s interesting to come back now using The Mighty Ducks as a re-entry vehicle,” the actor-director said during Disney+’s TCA panel on Wednesday.
He said that he told series executive producer Steve Brill he would only join the show “if we can capture the films fo the franchise, if we can create a cinematic experience and not just try to cash in on the nostalgia aspect of it.” After working in all 10 episodes of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Estevez said he and the rest of the team did just that.
Co-created by Brill,...
- 2/24/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
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