OMG! Selena Gomez goes again to Disney Channel!!
Turns out the actress isn’t carried out with the Wizard World simply but! In an thrilling and surprising announcement on Thursday, Deadline revealed Selena and her former co-star David Henrie have reunited to govt produce a Wizards of Waverly Place spin-off collection — and Disney Branded Television formally picked it up for a pilot! And get this, Selly and David are gonna star in it!
Whaaaa????
The sequel collection will start after “a mysterious incident at WizTech” happens. It’ll deal with David’s character Justin Russo, who has left his powers behind to dwell a standard life together with his spouse and two children. But every thing adjustments when a “powerful young wizard” in want of coaching exhibits up at his door and he “must embrace his past to ensure the future of the Wizard World.” That new wizard, Billie, will probably be performed by the present’s lead Janice LeAnn Brown. Also within the solid? Alkaio Thiele will star as Roman Russo, Justin’s oldest son, and Mimi Gianopulos will play his spouse, Giada. Selena will probably be within the pilot, on the very least, and David will probably be a collection common, FYI.
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So far, no phrase on whether or not different former solid members like Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera, or David DeLuise will return. Minus Henrie, all of them participated in a TV film, The Wizards Return: Alex Vs. Alex, in 2013, after the top of the collection, so it’s possible they’d need to be concerned. (Wow, it’s been over a decade since even that!!!) Jen and David even have a rewatch podcast going proper now. So, hopefully, we’ll get to see all of them once more in some trend!
Right now, the one different individuals undoubtedly concerned are the pilot’s writers and govt producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas — the identical crew behind the profitable That’s So Raven spin-off Raven’s Home. Gary Marsh and Andy Fickman are additionally going to EP, with Fickman set to direct the pilot. On her Instagram Story, the Rare Beauty founder stated she is “so excited!!” She additionally shared a throwback pic from the present of her and her TV bro, including, “WE’RE BACK!” David was equally joyful. See his publish (beneath)!
While all of that is tremendous thrilling — we simply hope we’ll really get to see this new present! Remember what they did to Lizzie McGuire in spite of everything?!?
Hilary Duff was all set to reprise her icon function, and the present was really deep into the manufacturing course of when Disney+ bailed on the collection. Just this week, Jonathan Hurwitz, a author on the canceled present, shared some perception into why that wack choice was made, claiming it was going to start out with Lizzie in NYC courting a sizzling chef. But when she finds out she’d been cheated on, she goes again to Cali, the place she meets up with pal Gordo (now engaged) and reconnects with crush Ethan Craft. And right here’s the most important drawback — no less than from the Mouse House’s POV. He defined one episode’s plot level:
“Lizzie wakes up in Ethan’s bed in his water polo t-shirt and animated Lizzie pops up and she has this little checklist — like a to-do list — and Ethan is on the list. And she checks it off and I think she says something like, ‘Well, check that box.’ Dramatic pause, ‘Twice!’”
LOLz!!
Turns out Disney wasn’t “comfortable” with the sheer implication {that a} GROWN-ASS ADULT was having intercourse — which is “problem one of” the explanations the present was canned. So, yeah, don’t anticipate this new Wizards spinoff to be made for adults – ’trigger that clearly ain’t flying!
Reactions?!? Do you hope this Wizards collection makes it onto the air? Let us know (beneath)!
[Image via Disney Channel/Selena Gomez/YouTube]
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