John Debney (The Passion of the Christ, Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book, Elf, Hocus Pocus, The Emperor’s New Groove) is scoring the new Disney+ original series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. The show is based on the 1992 The Mighty Ducks feature film (scored by David Newman) and stars Lauren Graham, Emilio Estevez, Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, Luke Islam, Kiefer O’Reilly, Taegen Burns, Bella Higginbotham and DJ Watts. The drama is set in present day Minnesota and follows a 12-year old boy who failed to make the cut to join the Mighty Ducks junior hockey team and is encouraged by his mother to form a new team of underdogs with help from Gordon Bombay, the Ducks’ original coach. Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa (13 Going on 30, What Women Want) are the project’s showrunners and are also executive producing the ABC Signature production with Steve Brill (Mr. Deeds, Drillbit Taylor) and Michael Spiller (The Mindy Project). Debney has previously collaborated with Brill on the 2014 feature Walk of Shame. The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will premiere on March 26 exclusively on Disney+.
As previously reported, Debney also has the Disney+ Home Alone reboot, the romantic comedy Marry Me and the family movie Clifford the Big Red Dog coming up. The composer will also score new episodes of the third season of The Orville, which is set to premiere later this year.
