Jon Heder to Star in New Series GULLIVER QUINN on Disney XD

TV Disney XD by Joey Paur

 

Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder had a short life on the big screen playing the same character over and over and over again. He is now set to star in and produce an new TV series on Disney XD in which he will once again play that same character he's always played. 

The live-action show written by Dan Kopelman (Malcolm In the Middle) is called Gulliver Quinn and the story follows a grown man enrolled in the seventh grade after his family returns from a 15 year research expedition. According to Deadline, "After living in a cave in remote northwest India where his mom and dad were making a documentary film on a rare tortoise, Gulliver grew up acquiring awesome skills such as lightning-quick reflexes and the ability to see in the dark. Now the family has come back to their suburban home, its 1996 décor, years of stacked up mail and a 28-year-old son who needs to finally graduate seventh grade. At school, he makes a few friends…and a few enemies and reunites with his childhood crush, now the school nurse."

I don't see myself tuning into Disney XD to watch this show, but I guess the tweens will get a kick out of watching an adult trying to work his way through the seventh grade. Heder has also reprised his Napoleon Dynamite role in the new animated series coming out on Fox. What do you all think about this new series? Will you give it a shot?

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