• [NEWS] "Gremlins" animated series renewed for second season

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 18 11:13:18 2021
    Season 1 hasn't even been broadcast yet.


    From ComingSoon.net ...


    Animated Gremlins prequel gets an early Season 2 renewal at HBO Max
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    Ahead of Gremlins: The Secrets of the Mogwai's upcoming debut
    sometime this year, Deadline brings word that HBO Max has
    officially granted Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Television's
    upcoming animated Gremlins prequel series an early second season
    renewal. This comes a day after it was confirmed that Mulan's
    Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, and Matthew Rhys have joined the series'
    voice cast.

    Set in 1920s Shanghai, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai will tell
    the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing
    in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with
    a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous
    journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and
    sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese
    folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover
    a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry
    industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.

    Sam is set to be voiced by Izaac Wang (Raya and the Last Dragon)
    while Wen will voice his mother Fong, a doctor of Chinese medicine
    who is "resourceful, slyly funny and fiercely protective of her
    family," and his father Hon will be voiced by Wong, described as a
    "calm rock" who "never believed his father-in-law's tales of magic
    and adventure." The family grandfather is set to be voiced by
    James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China) while Gizmo will be
    voiced by A.J. Locascio, Gabrielle Green voicing a human-friend of
    Sam's and Rhys set to star as Riley Greene, an English
    industrialist and treasure hunter who uses black magic on a quest
    for power and will stop at nothing to acquire Gizmo and the
    mythical treasure of the titular species.

    Tze Chun (Children of Invention, Gotham) will write and
    co-executive produce the 10-episode series. Darryl Frank and
    Justin Falvey will serve as executive producers for Amblin
    Television along with Sam Register. Brendan Hay will serve as
    co-executive producer with Dan Krall serving as supervising
    producer. The series is produced by Amblin in association with
    Warner Bros. Animation.

    Gremlins first took the box office by storm in director Joe
    Dante's 1984 Christmas/horror/comedy. In 1990, Dante returned for 
    Gremlins 2: The New Batch, which had a much lighter
    tongue-in-cheek tone than the first film.


    <https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1164022-gremlins-prequel-early-season-2-renewal-hbo-max>

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Who on Thu Feb 18 09:34:39 2021
    On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:13:18 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:


    Season 1 hasn't even been broadcast yet.

    So?

    Who said the Suits needed ratings to decide what was worth buying?

    From ComingSoon.net ...


    Animated Gremlins prequel gets an early Season 2 renewal at HBO Max
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    Ahead of Gremlins: The Secrets of the Mogwai's upcoming debut
    sometime this year, Deadline brings word that HBO Max has
    officially granted Warner Bros. Animation and Amblin Television's
    upcoming animated Gremlins prequel series an early second season
    renewal. This comes a day after it was confirmed that Mulan's
    Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, and Matthew Rhys have joined the series'
    voice cast.

    Set in 1920s Shanghai, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai will tell
    the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing
    in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with
    a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous
    journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and
    sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese
    folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover
    a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry
    industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.

    Sam is set to be voiced by Izaac Wang (Raya and the Last Dragon)
    while Wen will voice his mother Fong, a doctor of Chinese medicine
    who is "resourceful, slyly funny and fiercely protective of her
    family," and his father Hon will be voiced by Wong, described as a
    "calm rock" who "never believed his father-in-law's tales of magic
    and adventure." The family grandfather is set to be voiced by
    James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China) while Gizmo will be
    voiced by A.J. Locascio, Gabrielle Green voicing a human-friend of
    Sam's and Rhys set to star as Riley Greene, an English
    industrialist and treasure hunter who uses black magic on a quest
    for power and will stop at nothing to acquire Gizmo and the
    mythical treasure of the titular species.

    Tze Chun (Children of Invention, Gotham) will write and
    co-executive produce the 10-episode series. Darryl Frank and
    Justin Falvey will serve as executive producers for Amblin
    Television along with Sam Register. Brendan Hay will serve as
    co-executive producer with Dan Krall serving as supervising
    producer. The series is produced by Amblin in association with
    Warner Bros. Animation.

    Gremlins first took the box office by storm in director Joe
    Dante's 1984 Christmas/horror/comedy. In 1990, Dante returned for 
    Gremlins 2: The New Batch, which had a much lighter
    tongue-in-cheek tone than the first film.


    <https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1164022-gremlins-prequel-early-season-2-renewal-hbo-max>



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