The last time we saw Emilio Estevez, he served a bottle of hilarious water and Gort-Het-F ***-out of my house at his co-star from “St. Elmo’s Fire” Andrew McCarthy in the shouting fascinating documentary of this last “Brats”. Perhaps are a refreshing and refreshing interview material, but to judge by the tense shoulders and the death look without a wink that he had fixed on McCarthy, he did not seem to be in a mood BRAT PACK MEMORY ROAD That day.

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Why is it so on board? McCarthy’s impatient behavior and the scattered questioning line made this project quite simple should never have been done outside the office of his therapist. I would also have given him the short water treatment. But maybe something else ate Estevez.

By thinking back to the acting career of Estevez at 52 (extending to her beginnings that are not credited in the masterpiece of Terrence Malick in 1973 “Badlands”), he was an essential part of certain POP cultural touchstones. He was the wise The classic cult of Alex Cox “repo man” And the high school jock closely wound in the “The Breakfast Club” by John Hughes. Estevez was also Billy the child in the Gen-X-Cratering “Young Guns” Westerns (which could get a third episode at a given time in the near future).

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For millennials, however, Estevez will forever be the coach Gordon Bombay, the ex-player of capricious hockey who found the redemption by leading a group of disjointed outsiders to the glory of the frozen bond in “The Mighty Ducks”, “D2: The Mighty Ducks” and “D3: The Mighty Ducks”. Charges of children from the 1990s inhaled and can cite these films chapter and verse, it is therefore not surprising that Disney exploited their appeal of nostalgia several decades later with the streaming series “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers”.

The first season of the Disney + show struck the Sweet Spot, in particular with Many members of the “Mighty Ducks” distribution. However, when Estevez left the series before its second season During its presumed reluctance to comply with the company’s COVI-19 vaccination policy (although Estevez later said that he was “not anti-Vaxx” And that he was forced to come back for season 1 after developing Long Covid), the enthusiasm for “Game Changers” has decreased, Despite exciting plans for the futureAnd the show was canceled.

The future of the franchise “Mighty Ducks” is currently blurred, but one thing we know is that Disney wants to have nothing to do with the Estevez terrain for “The Mighty Ducks 4.” And it’s a shame, because it’s a pretty good idea!

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Recently abandoned by Josh Horowitz Podcast “Happy Sad Confus” And revealed that he had launched Disney on a fourth film “The Mighty Ducks”. This would have brought two of the biggest stars to get out of the franchise, but the studio was not hot on the idea. Here’s how Estevez explained the project to Horowitz:

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“”[It’s] A script of feature film that brought back coach Bombay, brought back by the character of Joshua Jackson and the character of Kenan Thompson and to train a new team, a team of expansion, for the professional female hockey league. So it would be a team of girls. Now when we discover Bombay, he drives roller derby and therefore says: “My daughters go with me. They must have a shot. It was charming and contemporary and cool and organically of the moment. This is where we are. […] Disney was like: “We don’t want to continue this.” »»

Perhaps Disney was frightened by the anemic performance at the box office of the film Roller Derby underestimated by Drew Barrymore “Whip It”, or perhaps the studio is still angry with Estevez on what happened in the series “Game Changers”. All I know is that I dig his argument and I would pay to see this film if it appeared at my local multiplex. It does not make sense for a beloved franchise like “The Mighty Ducks” – however, Like season 2 of “Game Changers” Showed us that nostalgia cannot support this brand.

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