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Exclusive: Anya Adams Tapped To Direct ‘The Mighty Ducks’ Disney+ Series

August 19, 2020Derek Cornell

We have learned that director Anya Adams (GLOW, The Good Place) has been tapped to direct multiple episodes of the Disney+ reboot series, The Mighty Ducks.

Back in March, Disney suspended production on The Mighty Ducks reboot series being made for Disney+, due to the coronavirus outbreak. Well, it looks like the production is putting their skates back on.

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According to a DGC-BC production list, The Mighty Ducks is expected to resume filming in Vancouver, Canada on August 31 and should wrap by December 17.

THE MIGHTY DUCKS, 1992, (c)Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

The series will see the return of Emilio Estevez as Coach Bombay, with Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Brady Noon (Good Boys), Swayam Bhatia (Succession), Taegen Burns (I Can Only Imagine), Julee Cerda (Passengers), Bella Higginbotham (Troop Zero), Luke Islam (America’s Got Talent), Kiefer O’Reilly (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Maxwell Simkins (Bizaardvark) and De’Jon Watts (Black Panther) all set to star.

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The ten-episode series is set in present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex (Graham) set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports. With the help of Gordon Bombay (Estevez), they discover the joys of playing just for the love of the game.

The Mighty Ducks is produced by ABC Signature Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios.  Steve Brill, the original creator, writer and executive producer of all three films, which spawned an NHL franchise, is back as co-creator and executive producer of the new series. Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa (The King of Queens, 13 Going On 30), are co-creators and will serve as showrunners. Emilio Estevez, James Griffiths, and Michael Spiller will serve as executive producers with Griffiths directing. Lauren Graham will serve as a co-executive producer.  George Heller and Brad Petrigala of Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Jordan Kerner also serve as non-writing executive producers.

Derek Cornell

Derek is an entertainment journalist based out of Los Angeles, California. For the last six years, he has been covering everything in film and television and has written for various news outlets, such as The Cinema Insider, That Hashtag Show, Full Circle Cinema, and is now the Co-Editor-in-Chief of The DisInsider. You can him on Twitter @derekcorneii.

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