OMG! Selena Gomez goes again to Disney Channel!!
Seems the actress isn’t finished 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 government produce a Wizards of Waverly Place spin-off sequence — and Disney Branded Tv formally picked it up for a pilot! And get this, Selly and David are gonna star in it!
Whaaaa????
The sequel sequence will start after “a mysterious incident at WizTech” happens. It’ll give attention to David’s character Justin Russo, who has left his powers behind to stay a standard life together with his spouse and two youngsters. However every little thing modifications when a “highly effective younger wizard” in want of coaching exhibits up at his door and he “should embrace his previous to make sure the way forward for the Wizard World.” That new wizard, Billie, shall be performed by the present’s lead Janice LeAnn Brown. Additionally within the forged? Alkaio Thiele will star as Roman Russo, Justin’s oldest son, and Mimi Gianopulos will play his spouse, Giada. Selena shall be within the pilot, on the very least, and David shall be a sequence common, FYI.
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To date, no phrase on whether or not different former forged 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 sequence, so it’s probably they’d wish 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 style!
Proper now, the one different folks undoubtedly concerned are the pilot’s writers and government producers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas — the identical workforce 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 Uncommon Magnificence 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 completely satisfied. See his put up (beneath)!
Whereas all of that is tremendous thrilling — we simply hope we’ll truly get to see this new present! Bear in mind what they did to Lizzie McGuire in spite of everything?!?
Hilary Duff was all set to reprise her icon function, and the present was truly deep into the manufacturing course of when Disney+ bailed on the sequence. Simply this week, Jonathan Hurwitz, a author on the canceled present, shared some perception into why that wack resolution was made, claiming it was going to start out with Lizzie in NYC relationship a scorching chef. However 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 — at the least from the Mouse Home’s POV. He defined one episode’s plot level:
“Lizzie wakes up in Ethan’s mattress in his water polo t-shirt and animated Lizzie pops up and he or she has this little guidelines — like a to-do record — and Ethan is on the record. And she or he checks it off and I believe she says one thing like, ‘Nicely, verify that field.’ Dramatic pause, ‘Twice!’”
LOLz!!
Seems Disney wasn’t “snug” with the sheer implication {that a} GROWN-ASS ADULT was having intercourse — which is “drawback one in all” 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 sequence makes it onto the air? Tell us (beneath)!
[Image via Disney Channel/Selena Gomez/YouTube]
