The original Mighty Ducks movie star Emilio Estevez will be returning in a lead role for Disney’s sequel series for Disney+.
RELATED: Emilio Estevez Is the Most Profitable Actor in HollywoodReleased in 1992, the original Mighty Ducks movie starred Estevez as Gordon Bombay, an attorney who’s arrested for DUI and ordered to coach a youth hockey team as a part of his court-ordered community service.
The Mighty Ducks Disney+ TV Series will follow a 13-year-old boy and his mother looking to start their own hockey team after he is kicked off the local Mighty Ducks junior division.
James Griffiths (Cuban Fury) will direct all ten episodes of The Mighty Ducks series, with original trilogy screenwriter Steven Brill and producer Jordan Kerner also on board.