Josh Duhamel to Star in Season 2 of THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS at Disney+
Actor Josh Duhamel (Win a Date With Tad Hamilton, Transformers) is set to star in the upcoming second season of the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. “Duhamel will play new character NHL player-turned-coach Gavin Cole in the hockey-themed sequel series. Inspirational, charming and hardcore, Gavin is big on the hockey metaphor that applies to life. He runs the super-intense summer hockey institute where The Mighty Ducks land for Season 2.”
Duhamel’s casting follows the Season 1 star Emilio Estevez’s November exit from the project. He told Deadline he was departing the show due to a contract dispute and creative differences after a bout with long-haul Covid. The script was adjusted to continue the show without his character, Gordon Bombay, who originated in the Mighty Ducks films in the ‘90s.
The series, which also stars Brady Noon, is set in present-day Minnesota, where the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Noon) is unceremoniously cut, he and his mom (Lauren Graham) set out to build their own team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of youth sports today.
The rest of the cast also includes Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, Bella Higginbotham and DJ Watts.