Joseph Baxter Jan 29, 2020
Ron Howard is teasing a Willow television series for Disney+, whose greenlight he awaits as development commences.
Willow, director Ron Howard’s highly-touted 1988 fantasy flick, was supposed to be the next E.T.; a title to which it laid claim bearing a story from George Lucas, an at-the-time substantial $35 million budget and magical themes that were tailor-made for family consumption at theaters. However, while the film fell short of phone-home-level box office grosses, it was widely acclaimed, and has since maintained a fanbase, one that might soon be mollified with a Disney+ TV revival.
A sequel television series for Willow is in development, as Howard reveals to Collider in a Sundance Film Festival sit-down interview. In another example of second-generation scribes taking classic franchise reins, Jonathan Kasdan, son of legendary Star Wars scribe Lawrence Kasdan, is writing the Willow series, set as showrunner. As Howard, who is not yet attached to direct,...
Ron Howard is teasing a Willow television series for Disney+, whose greenlight he awaits as development commences.
Willow, director Ron Howard’s highly-touted 1988 fantasy flick, was supposed to be the next E.T.; a title to which it laid claim bearing a story from George Lucas, an at-the-time substantial $35 million budget and magical themes that were tailor-made for family consumption at theaters. However, while the film fell short of phone-home-level box office grosses, it was widely acclaimed, and has since maintained a fanbase, one that might soon be mollified with a Disney+ TV revival.
A sequel television series for Willow is in development, as Howard reveals to Collider in a Sundance Film Festival sit-down interview. In another example of second-generation scribes taking classic franchise reins, Jonathan Kasdan, son of legendary Star Wars scribe Lawrence Kasdan, is writing the Willow series, set as showrunner. As Howard, who is not yet attached to direct,...
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