Emilio Estevez is making some huge revelations in his newest interview, the place he discusses writing a brand new Mighty Geese sequel and shares his expertise on the set of St. Elmo’s Fireplace.
One among Estevez’s most memorable roles was enjoying Coach Bombay within the 1992 movie The Mighty Geese. The actor reprised his function within the Disney+ sequence The Mighty Geese: Recreation Changers, however left the present after the primary season because of “nothing more than old school contract dispute” in addition to “a myriad of artistic variations.”
In a brand new interview with Josh Horowitz for the Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast, Estevez mentioned he “wrote Mighty Geese 4.”
“I wished to make up for all the disasters that occurred on the Recreation Changers sequence,” he mentioned.
Estevez mentioned the “characteristic script” would have “Coach Bombay coming again [and] being pulled again in by Josh Jackson’s character and Kenan Thompson’s character to teach a brand new group: an enlargement group for the skilled girls’s hockey league. So it will be an all-girl group.”
The actor goes into element that “once we uncover Bombay, he’s teaching curler derby, and so he says, ‘My ladies are going with me. They must have a shot.’ And it was charming, and up to date, and funky.”
Regardless of his enthusiasm for a Mighty Geese sequel, Estevez mentioned that Disney advised him that they didn’t need to pursue that concept.
Throughout the identical interview, Horowitz requested Estevez for “the worst word a director has ever given” him, which made him recall his time on the set of 1985’s St. Elmo’s Fireplace.
“Have f***ing time,” Estevez mentioned, director Joel Schumacher advised him because the filmmaker was “screaming on the high of his lungs.”
“To go from John Hughes [director of The Breakfast Club], who was collaborative, who was a mentor in some ways, who was calm, listened, to Joel, who was wildly insecure and was a nightmare on set and was a bully… And to have that occur in the identical yr was, and I vowed by no means to talk to my actors that approach if I ever obtained an opportunity to direct. In 1984, I assumed this was the very best lesson a younger actor who desires to direct might ever get. Thanks Joel,” Estevez mentioned.
Watch the total interview with Estevez within the video beneath.
