Emilio Estevez Wrote a ‘Mighty Ducks 4’ Script to Make Up for Past ‘Disasters’
After making headlines for not bailing on a Breakfast Club reunion, Emilio Estevez recently guested on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast and made a startling admission: He’s secretly written feature-length sequel scripts for two of his most famous movies.
The revelation came after Horowitz brought up Maximum Overdrive, the bonkers 1986 sci-fi movie about a comet that causes every machine on Earth to turn evil, which was directed by Stephen King. Horowitz asked whether or not it was apparent to Estevez that King was really as “coked out” as he’s claimed. I mean, it was apparent to everyone who saw the film’s trailer:
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Estevez recalled that King kept a plastic tumbler full of booze during filming, and later sent the actor a letter apologizing for how the final product turned out. Then, somewhat randomly, he told the host that he recently attempted to expand the Maximum Overdrive-verse. “With the advent of computer technology and A.I. and all of that, I started to imagine what a sequel to Maximum Overdrive would look like,” Estevez explained. “And during the strike I wrote one.”
Estevez then made an even more shocking revelation. “I also wrote Mighty Ducks 4,” he confessed. “Because I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the Game Changers series.”
The disasters in question involved the Disney+ series Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, which brought back Estevez’s character Coach Gordon Bombay, only for him to disappear entirely in the second season. It was initially reported that Estevez wasn’t returning to the show because he hadn’t met the show’s pandemic-era vaccination requirement. But the actor later claimed that his departure was due to “nothing more than a good old fashioned contract dispute,” plus “a myriad of creative differences.”
As Estevez told Horowitz, his idea for a fourth movie found Coach Bombay “being pulled back by Josh Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character to coach a new team: an expansion team for the professional women’s hockey league. So it would be an all-girl team.” But there’s a catch: “When we discover Bombay, he’s coaching roller derby. So he says, ‘My girls are going with me. They have to have a shot.’ And it was charming, and contemporary and cool.”
While a roller derby-centric sequel to a 1992 movie doesn’t really sound all that “contemporary,” we’ll never know for sure because The Mighty Ducks 4 isn’t happening. “Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that,’” Estevez stated.
As for Maximum Overdrive 2, it would have found Estevez’s short-order cook character opening his own diner, and welcoming a celebrity guest. “Guy Fieri is coming to do Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the day the world falls apart. And the machines turn on them,” Estevez explained. Unfortunately, it was similarly rejected by the rights-holders, thus depriving the world of a movie that may well have included a scene in which an evil vending machine hits Guy Fieri in the nuts with a soda can.
Estevez also said that he’s been pushing for a Young Guns 3. But apparently he draws the line at pitching a sequel to Freejack, the ‘90s sci-fi movie co-starring Mick Jagger. “That one I’m actually going to leave alone,” he noted.
