Willow - Official Teaser Trailer

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Disney+ unveiled the teaser trailer for Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment's "Willow" an all-new live-action fantasy adventure series based on the classic 1988 feature film, at the Lucasfilm studio showcase panel at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim today. "Willow" will premiere on November 30, 2022, exclusively on Disney+.

An epic period fantasy series with a modern sensibility set in an enchanted land of breathtaking beauty, "Willow" features a diverse international cast with Jonathan Kasdan, Ron Howard, Wendy Mericle, Kathleen Kennedy, and Michelle Rejwan serving as executive producers. The story began with an aspiring magician from a Nelwyn village and an infant girl destined to unite the realms, who together helped destroy an evil queen and banish the forces of darkness. Now, in a magical world where brownies, sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, the adventure continues, as an unlikely group of heroes set off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world.

 

[No1WonderFan]

I am beyond excited about this. I've been obsessed with Willow since it was released. Since the sequel series was announced I've been digging into every article and news bit released about it and could find no mention of Joanne Whalley's involvement as Sorsha.

The second this trailer started I was like "it's HER voice!" and then there she was. I hope this is wonderful and they respect the original characters. 

[Lord_Scareglow]

Willow is one of my all time favs, this is a dream come true to see more Willow Universe, this makes me so happy, I can't wait, Go Warwick! man can't this come sooner!

[Nosferatuman62172]

It'd be nice if we get some figures out of this 

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Warwick Davis and the rest of the crew including the newest addition Christian Slater was in attendance at D23 Saturday.  Lucasfilm presented the new trailer for Willow, which will premiere on November 30, 2022, exclusively on Disney+.

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From Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment comes “Willow,” an all-new live-action fantasy adventure series based on the classic 1988 feature film. “Willow” will premiere November 30, 2022, exclusively on Disney+. The story began with an aspiring magician from a Nelwyn village and an infant girl destined to unite the realms, who together helped destroy an evil queen and banish the forces of darkness. Now, in a magical world where brownies, sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, the adventure continues, as an unlikely group of heroes set off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world.

An epic period fantasy series with a modern sensibility set in an enchanted land of breathtaking beauty, “Willow” features a diverse international cast, including Warwick Davis, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Ellie Bamber, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Bryk, and Joanne Whalley. Jonathan Kasdan (“Solo: A Star Wars Story,” “Dawson’s Creek”), is showrunner, and the roster of directors, each of whom helmed two consecutive episodes, includes Stephen Woolfenden (“Outlander”), Debs Paterson (“A Discovery of Witches”), Philippa Lowthorpe (“The Crown”), and Jamie Childs (“Doctor Who”). The writers are John Bickerstaff (“The Romanoffs”), Hannah Friedman (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”), and Jonathan Kasdan. The producers are Stephen Woolfenden, Julia Cooperman (“Jupiter’s Legacy”), Hameed Shaukat (“House of Cards”), and Max Taylor, with Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”), Jonathan Kasdan, Tommy Harper (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Wendy Mericle (“Arrow”), Roopesh Parekh “(“His Dark Materials”), Ron Howard (“Thirteen Lives”), and Samie Kim Falvey (“Under the Banner of Heaven”) serving as executive producers. The co-executive producer is Hannah Friedman, and the supervising producer is Rayna McClendon (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”).

Willow is set to premiere on November 30th, 2022.

Willow stars Warwick Davis, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Ellie Bamber, Tony Revolori

Directors: Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Bryk, Joanne Whalley, Stephen Woolfenden, Debs Paterson, Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Jamie Childs, John Bickerstaff, Hannah Friedman, and Jonathan Kasdan
Producers: Stephen Woolfenden, Julia Cooperman, Hameed Shaukat, and Max Taylor
Executive Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Jonathan Kasdan, Tommy Harper, Wendy Mericle, Roopesh Parekh, Ron Howard, and Samie Kim Falvey
Co-Executive Producer: Hannah Friedman
Supervising Producer: Rayna McClendon

[Scifantasy]

Is this a continuation?

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1 hour ago, Scifantasy said:

Is this a continuation?

it is and it looks wonderful!

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New promotional poster and images...

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[MagnaPrime]

Well that certainly has my attention 

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On the heels of the season finale of Lucasfilm’s all-new action-adventure series “Willow” based on George Lucas’ fantasy-adventure film, Disney+ has set a January 25, 2023 premiere date for the debut of its original documentary special, “Willow: Behind the Magic.” Featuring the series’ breakout stars and returning legends, the documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the making of the hit original series, which debuted on Disney+ on November 30, 2022.

The story of “Willow” begins when an aspiring sorcerer, played by Warwick Davis, is whisked away on a journey to protect an infant empress Elora Danan and vanquish the evil Queen Bavmorda from their world of Andowyne. Now, the story continues with Davis reprising his titular role as he leads an unlikely crew of heroes – which includes a now-grown Elora, who has just learned of her prodigious birthright – on a quest to protect Andowyne from an even larger foe than they had imagined possible. “Willow” also stars Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel, Dempsey Bryk, and Joanne Whalley. Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Jonathan Kasdan, Tommy Harper, Wendy Mericle, Roopesh Parekh, Ron Howard, and Samie Kim Falvey serve as executive producers. The writers are John Bickerstaff, Hannah Friedman, and Jonathan Kasdan. The producers are Stephen Woolfenden, Julia Cooperman, Hameed Shaukat, and Max Taylor.

 

[Artoyz]

Willow;

See how we made him a moron and not the main character.

 

 

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Deadline is reporting that the streaming platform Disney+ has canceled Willow, Disney+’s live-action original series based on the 1988 fantasy film directed by Ron Howard.  The first and only season consisted of eight episodes and served as a sequel to the classic movie.

No official reason for the cancellation as the series was well-received by critics, but was criticized but fans. Willow remains an important IP in the Lucasfilm library so it might be revisited.

[Reno]

I re-watched the original movie that I hadn't seen since it first came out and then watched the series. It was "fine", I enjoyed it enough for a one-time watch, but I'd likely never sit down and re-watch it. I'd prefer if Disney spent more of their focus on the Marvel and Star Wars shows. I'm very disappointed that they intend to slow those down. In my opinion there should be at least one new episode for each IP for every single week of the year. Otherwise, I'm not sure why I should continue to pay for Disney+ every month when it would be far wiser to just pay when a show I want to see completes it 's run and I can binge it in a weekend.

[Satam]

Well, that sucks. It ended on a cliffhanger. I know it wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but my wife and I liked it. It was fun.

[lordtom]

Oh no, how sad /s

Don't worry I'm sure the cliffhange will be resolved in a Marvel comic

[AlanXember]

With respect to anyone the new series appealed to... And I mean that, if you liked/loved it, it did its job and that's great....

But this series seemed really confused about what it was to me. The Willow movie had such a strong, rough charm to it, with some unlikely, clearly unimportant characters, in a rough but fun fantasy world that end up saving the day and earning some enjoyable, admirable and natural character dynamics and growth. It felt authentic and gritty, as if the fantasy heroes never showed up, so we got a worldly, but morally ambiguous and delusional thug and a half-height farmer that just wants to be back with his kids. A fun fantasy romp with a heart anyone can relate to. In contrast, the series seemed to revel in cliche,  self-important, high-borne fantasy heroes learning to be more self-infatuated and angsty while bordering on being abusive to the ones they claim to love for forced melodrama or a joke. Like watching a terrible, shallow highshchool clique that pretends to be friends until the others aren't looking. Not in the unlikely heroes way either, more like how slasher movies write horrible, shallow people being awful to eachother as leads so people root for the killer. All wrapped up in very modern,  fast-food storytelling and writing. The ending felt so empty to me.

Really wanted to defend this show, but I couldn't find anything to get behind. The one upside I can think of is that they know when to quit.

 

[Goldbug]

I liked it. It seemed to me they were going to try to save Madmartigan next & deal with evil version of Elora

[UnknownQuantity]

I am . . . SLIGHTLY disappointed . . . and GENUINELY surprised. But not SHOCKED.

I thought it was a perfectly decent show. NOT a perfectly PERFECT show, by any means, and ABSOLUTELY not a great follow-up to the movie. As noted by others, it had a RIDICULOUSLY hard time trying to figure out what it wanted to be, and never quite managed it. I thought it was good enough for what it was, standing on its own. But in the framework of the original film? KINDA mediocre, honestly.

Still, I am surprised it got cancelled because (to this point) Disney+ hasn't had an issue leaning into and sticking with its projects, seeing them all the way through. And especially leaving it off with a cliffhanger . . . didn't see that coming.

Nevertheless, given the price of the endeavor, and the lukewarm reception from fans, it's not TOO surprising that they'd cut bait early.