Posted on Friday, April 30th, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers digs back into the nostalgia of the original franchise in the biggest way yet with today’s new episode, titled “Spirit of the Ducks.” When a gala is planned to celebrate the legacy of the peewee hockey team, some of the original teammates get back together with Coach Gordon Bombay (
Emilio Estevez). But the reunion isn’t quite as chipper as you might expect, and that’s exactly how franchise writer
Steven Brill likes it.
Mighty Ducks reunion episode of
Game Changers, we sat down to talk with Steven Brill, the writer of all three original movies and executive producer/writer of the new Disney+ series (who also directs the reunion episode). In our conversation, find out about the development of
Marguerite Moreau), Guy Germaine (
Justin Wong) all get back together with Coach Gordon Bombay (
Emilio Estevez). It’s a bit of a bumpy reunion in terms of the tension that arises between the characters, and making the reunion happen wasn’t a walk in the park either.
We got a chance to speak with Steven Brill leading up to the release of “Spirit of the Ducks” today, and he talked about how the coronavirus pandemic ruined some of his hopes for the scope of the reunion. Brill said:
“It was not great to not be able to get everybody that we wanted. Sometimes it was because, like