Emilio Estevez says he has written a script for The Mighty Ducks 4

While Emilio Estevez silently stepped away from the spotlight, he started working more behind the camera in both writing and directing duties, while throwing in some acting duties along the way. However, Estevez would step back into his iconic Hockey coach role with the Disney+ legacy series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers back in 2021. The series ended just a year later, but Emilio felt the need to do right by the franchise and revealed he had written a script for a fourth Mighty Ducks entry.

Estevez recently appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, where he expounded,

I also wrote Mighty Ducks 4 because I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the Game Changers series. A feature script that had Coach Bombay coming back, being pulled back in by Joshua 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’d be an all-girl team. Now, when we discover Bombay, he’s coaching roller derby. So he says, ‘My girls are going with me, they have to have a shot.’ It was charming and contemporary and cool and organically of the moment. And Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that.’”

Estevez revisited another past project from earlier in his career when he revealed he pitched and wrote a sequel to the Stephen King adaptation Maximum Overdrive. He explained, “In truth, and with the advent of more computer technology and AI and all of that, I started to imagine what a sequel to Maximum Overdrive would look like – and during the (2023 actors strike), I wrote one! Maximum Overdrive, I don’t have the rights to this any of this. This was just sort of… I started page 1, I started an idea, now on I’m on page 10, I’m on page 20, now it’s 50 pages, and I can’t stop. Dino De Laurentiis(‘s company) owns the rights to Maximum Overdrive. I created an insane world that takes place in a diner. So, Bill – if you remember the movie, and if you do, I’m sorry, it’s a terrible movie – but he was a short order cook, so now in the movie, it opens with, he’s got his own diner, he’s got a young daughter, and he’s got his crew, his people, and Guy Fieri is coming to do Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the day the world falls apart and machines turn. It was a cool idea, it’s a bitchin’ script, man. And De Laurentiis was like, ‘Nope, we have the rights to this, we’re not interested, we’re going to pursue our own thing.’ I was like, ‘Okay.’“

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