Emilio Estevez Says He Wrote ‘Mighty Ducks 4' To Make Up For 'Disasters' From Disney+ Series & Recalls ‘St. Elmo's Fire' Director Was A 'Nightmare On Set'
Emilio Estevez is making some big revelations in his latest interview, where he discusses writing a new Mighty Ducks sequel and shares his experience on the set of St. Elmo's Fire.
One of Estevez's most memorable roles was playing Coach Bombay in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks. The actor reprised his role in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, but left the show after the first season as a result of 'nothing more than a good old-fashioned contract dispute' as well as 'a myriad of creative differences.'
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In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Estevez said he 'wrote Mighty Ducks 4.'
'I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the Game Changers series,' he said.
Estevez said the 'feature script' would have 'Coach Bombay coming back [and] being pulled back in 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.'
The actor goes into detail that '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.' And it was charming, and contemporary, and cool.'
Despite his enthusiasm for a Mighty Ducks sequel, Estevez said that Disney told him that they didn't want to pursue that idea.
During the same interview, Horowitz asked Estevez for 'the worst note a director has ever given' him, which made him recall his time on the set of 1985's St. Elmo's Fire.
'Have a good f***ing time,' Estevez said, director Joel Schumacher told him as the filmmaker was 'screaming at the top of his lungs.'
'To go from John Hughes [director of The Breakfast Club], who was collaborative, who was a mentor in many ways, who was calm, listened, to Joel, who was wildly insecure and was a nightmare on set and was a bully… And to have that happen in the same year was, and I vowed never to speak to my actors that way if I ever got a chance to direct. In 1984, I thought this was the best lesson a young actor who wants to direct could ever get. Thank you Joel,' Estevez said.
Watch the full interview with Estevez in the video below.
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