A fourth Mighty Ducks movie could be on the way.
During a discussion about the 20th anniversary of D2: The Mighty Ducks with Time, producer Jordan Kerner revealed that Disney has approached him about making a new Mighty Ducks movie. Although he claimed to have been enthusiastic about the idea, Kerner said that he won’t go forward with the project until the story is right, and for now, Kerner hasn’t found the right story.
“There have been a number of times that we have discussed with the studio the idea of either bringing it back and bringing it back possibly with one or two of the guys who are now in their 30s as the coaches, and having a few more of them be their friends in their lives and having the kids come back,”; said Kerner. “And I’ve been pitched a story two or three times. It hasn’t been the right story yet, but the idea of doing that is something Steve and I have talked about and actually Disney and I have talked about.”;
Kerner continued: “So I’m not going to fuel the rumour mill that it’s going to happen, but I’m saying to you that the studio said to us, “We’d be interested if you come to us with the right story.’ And that’s something that we’ve been all thinking about independently and I think that we may be coming closer to having the right idea for that.”;
The first Mighty Ducks movie starred Emilio Estevez as an attorney who is pulled over for drunk driving and sentenced to coach a peewee hockey team which has lost every game they’ve ever played. Against all odds, he coaches the team to victory. Also against all odds, the film became a box office sensation, grossing $50 million on a budget of just $10 million, and spawning two sequels.
The series provided Joshua Jackson with one of his first roles (as team captain Charlie Conway), and Jackson is just as enthusiastic as Kerner about bringing the series back. “I feel like a fourth film should happen, and if there was space for any of the original kids that come back and have a role, I would be surprised that anybody didn’t want to do it,”; said Jackson. “The next generation should have its own version. Not that we need to come back as adults, but I hope my kids grow up and play pickup hockey and I hope that they have their own movies like my generation had those movies. In that way, yeah, of course, I’d be a part of something like that.”;
