By Mallory Mattingly
Is MIGHTY DUCKS 4 actually happening?
While at an Anaheim Ducks hockey game, MIGHTY DUCKS star Kenan Thompson flashed a MIGHTY DUCKS 4 script at the camera. Later that night, he led the stadium in a quack chant.
“It’s good to be home. 🏒🥅 That game sure was MIGHTY!!!! GO DUCKS!!!!👏🏾🙌🏾” Thompson shared in a post on Instagram.
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The last MIGHTY DUCKS movie, D3: THE MIGHTY DUCKS, came out in 1996 and followed “The unruly team of hockey misfits” after they grew “up a bit” and received “scholarships to a prestigious prep school, where they take on the snotty varsity team.”
Star Emilio Estevez, who played Gordon Bombay, penned a script for the fourth installment, but Disney didn’t end up wanting it.
“I also wrote MIGHTY DUCKS 4. I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the GAME CHANGERS series,” Estevez said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast last year.
“[It’s] a feature script that had Coach Bombay coming back, being pulled back in by Joshua Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character and to coach a new team, an expansion team, for the professional women’s hockey league,” the actor explained further.
“So, it would be an all-girl team. Now, when we discover Bombay, he’s coaching roller derby, and so he says, ‘My girls are going with me. They have to have a shot,'” he added. “It was charming and contemporary and cool and organically of the moment. It’s where we’re at…Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that.'”
Thompson credits his time filming the MIGHTY DUCKS movies for his love for hockey.
“I’m a big fan of the NHL, man. I’ve been ever since my MIGHTY DUCKS days, basically. To have a relationship where I can actually contribute to the league is a beautiful thing,” Thompson told ESPN in 2022 at the Stanley Cup. “I want to give back in more ways than just waving on the JumboTron. It’s nice to have an active participation in the community because it’s such a beautiful community.
“It’s always been super-duper love. Hockey fans can get a little rowdy after the game and stuff, but they just want to shout out THE MIGHTY DUCKS and tell me how much they meant to them, how it kept them motivated on their hockey paths,” he added. “It’s always been a lot of love.”
While Disney passed on Estevez’s MIGHTY DUCKS 4 script, it looks like something might actually be in the works! Fans will have to wait to see.
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