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‘Darkwing Duck’ Revived at Disney+ Starring Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Lizzy Caplan and Lilimar Disney (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

Apparently he was on board as recently as this March, and had even recorded a pilot, but he gave an interview in August that revealed that he was no longer attached to the project and the role would be recast. No real details though.

From what I can see it looks like the overall shape of the series has changed pretty dramatically in that time as well. It was originally going to be about an older Drake picking up the mantle again after a period of retirement, ala The Dark Knight Returns. Now it seems to be something about the character being transported to an alternate dimension where nobody's ever heard of Darkwing Duck. (Which, wasn't that a subplot in the DuckTales reboot?)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    The recent DuckTales series had it where Darkwing Duck was an older in-universe TV show that Launchpad loves. During the development of a movie reboot of the show, a young actor comes to replace the original in-universe TV Darkwing, who turns heel. This causes the new guy to become Darkwing Duck in the "real life" of the DuckTales universe, at Launchpad's behest. Then the OG Darkwing dons a yellow and red costume, thus becoming Negaduck. A later episode has some dude use a machine that pulls the fictional villains from the TV show into the DuckTales universe, thus giving the new Darkwing his rogues gallery. (My kids got us to watch the new DuckTales and it's actually pretty great as a parents-watching-with-kids show since it draws a TON from the Disney animation block from back in the day, especially in later seasons).

    I was always under the impression that Disney was preparing for a spin-off Darkwing Duck from the new DuckTales. Guess they've decided to do something entirely different. Which, to be honest, is a little sad to me because of how great the new DuckTales turned out to be.

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