Proving once again there are really no new ideas but instead just recycled ideas that eventually end up on cable, The Hollywood Reporter revealed this week that a TV series is in the works based around The Mighty Ducks movies from the 1990s. Assuming the basic framework remains intact — a misfit collection of youth hockey players, a well-intentioned coach with a layered past, some type of over-entitled obnoxious league rival — it only makes that the new iteration would seek to present the modern-day Ducks with a set of challenges unique to these interesting times.
Just spitballing here, but for instance:
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Once portly and affable, goaltender Greg Goldberg drops 25 pounds and is now shredded thanks to strict gluten- and hormone-free diet;
draws ridicule from teammates for abundance of selfies on his
Instagram feed. -
Beloved hockey sage Hans falls prey to e-mail phishing scam telling him to send money to long-lost relative in Taiwan; the Ducks have to
put on fundraiser to re-coup his losses. -
Bookish Lester Averman's ice time diminishes after spate of neutral
zone turnovers; subsequent ADHD diagnosis and accompanying medication
turns him into two-way dynamo.
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"Bash Brother" Fulton Reed sidelined in Episode 5 due to elaborate
concussion protocol. -
Head coach Gordon Bombay's aggressive Tinder habits backfire when two
hook-ups simultaneously meet him outside rink after league title
game. -
A boorish new parent, LaVar Puck, moves to town in Episode 7 and
insists his talented sons will only show up for games if they're
assured sufficient time on the power play. -
Ducks invite scrutiny after curiously dropping three straight to
inferior Moscow pee wee team in international tournament;
investigators eventually uncover a series of emails that implicates
team benefactor Duckworth in Russian collusion. -
A fractious divide runs through team when other "Bash Brother" Dean
Portman opts to take a knee during national anthem; Star forward Adam
Hand responds by spamming team group text with multiple links from
Breitbart.