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"Disney was like 'We don't want to pursue that,'" the actor said about his ideas for a fourth film.
Emilio Estevez had a blast from the past in the works, but it didn’t pan out.
Estevez was the latest guest on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he revealed he wrote a sequel script for Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive and casually dropped that, in addition, he penned a script for a follow-up to The Mighty Ducks franchise.
“I also wrote Mighty Ducks 4,” the actor revealed. “I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the Game Changers series.”
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Estevez last starred as coach Gordon Bombay on The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers for Disney+, exiting the show in November 2022 amid a contract dispute. But he did not feel the story was done, so he wrote a spec script continue after it left off.
“[It’s] a feature script that had coach Bombay coming back, being pulled back in by Josh Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character and to coach a new team, an expansion team, for the professional women’s hockey league. So, it would be an all-girl team,” Estevez said. “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.'”
Estevez called the script “charming” and “contemporary,” but said, “Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that.’ And Maximum Overdrive, I don’t have the rights to any of this!”
The original Mighty Ducks came out in 1992 and was released by Disney, along with its sequels. It followed Estevez’s Bombay coaching a pee-wee hockey team per court order as a way for him to get his life back on track. The third film premiered in 1996, and its most recent release was the second season of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers on Disney+.
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