The 'Mighty Ducks' May Fly Together Again in New TV Series

Long, long ago, back when Bill Clinton was a presidential candidate and Ghostbusters was a cereal, Disney released a children's sports movie called The Mighty Ducks. The film starred Emilio Estevez as a disgraced lawyer sentenced to coach a kids' hockey team, and it hit all the beats we've come to expect from the classic "troubled adult leads misfit youths to glory" plot.

It wasn't the first or the best of its genre, but the movie was a box office success and spawned a couple of decent sequels during the 1990s. Now, all these years later, it looks like the Mighty Ducks may fly together again.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, ABC Signature Studios is currently developing a new TV series based on The Mighty Ducks franchise—penned by the original trilogy's screenwriter, Steven Brill. Brill reportedly developed the show concept with Mighty Ducks producer Jordan Kerner and is now working on a script with ABC Signature Studios, with plans to attach talent and start pitching to networks sometime in 2018.

The series is still in the very early stages of development so there's not a whole lot of information about its plot, but it seems like the show could go one of two ways: Either we'll get a straight reboot, reimagining the original film with an updated story and new cast, or the series will function as a sequel, set in the same universe as the 90s trilogy.

We don't know which way Brill is planning to go, but hopefully, he takes sequel route and drags Emilio Estevez back in to reprise his role as Gordon Bombay, since Estevez was a big part of what gave the first movies their charm. Plus, Estevez hasn't been doing much lately besides working on passion projects about the library, so he should be available.

A Mighty Ducks TV series is just one of a massive number of reboots and revivals currently in development by the cultural necromancers in Hollywood right now. It's unclear at this stage whether this one will actually make it to the small screen, but let's hope it does, since it would get us one step closer to the Mighty Ducks revival the world has been waiting for—a gritty, live-action reboot of the cartoon.

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