Emilio Estevez Wrote a Script for ‘Mighty Ducks 4’ That Disney Rejected (2025)

Emilio Estevez had a blast from the past in the works, but it didn’t pan out.

Estevez was the latest guest on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he revealed he wrote a sequel script for Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive and casually dropped that, in addition, he penned a script for a follow-up to The Mighty Ducks franchise.

“I also wrote Mighty Ducks 4,” the actor revealed. “I wanted to make up for all of the disasters that happened on the Game Changers series.”

Estevez last starred as coach Gordon Bombay on The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers for Disney+, exiting the show in November 2022 amid a contract dispute. But he did not feel the story was done, so he wrote a spec script continue after it left off.

“[It’s] a feature script that had coach Bombay coming back, being pulled back in by Josh Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character and to coach a new team, an expansion team, for the professional women’s hockey league. So, it would be an all-girl team,” Estevez said. “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.'”

Estevez called the script “charming” and “contemporary,” but said, “Disney was like, ‘We don’t want to pursue that.’ And Maximum Overdrive, I don’t have the rights to any of this!”

The original Mighty Ducks came out in 1992 and was released by Disney, along with its sequels. It followed Estevez’s Bombay coaching a pee-wee hockey team per court order as a way for him to get his life back on track. The third film premiered in 1996, and its most recent release was the second season of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers on Disney+.