Emilio Estevez says he had big plans for a Mighty Ducks comeback — but Disney wasn’t interested.
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Estevez revealed he wrote a spec script for a fourth Mighty Ducks movie, aiming to course-correct after the bumpy ride of Disney+’s Game Changers series.
“I also wrote ‘Mighty Ducks 4,’” Estevez said. “I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the ‘Game Changers’ series.”
His pitch? A fresh, female-forward take with some familiar faces.
“[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 explained. “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
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