After his unexpected return to Top Gun: Maverick, Val Kilmer is about to replay another of his cult roles. The comedian, who retired from the sets a few years ago after his throat cancer, will be back in Madmartigan in the series derived from the film Willow soon to be broadcast on Disney+.
“Val is part of the adventure and as soon as the project has been validated, our first gesture in Warwick [Davis, l’acteur de Willow] and it was up to me to contact Val”, told the Hollywood Reporter Jonathan Kasdan, executive producer of the series. “We wanted his character to be part of the story. We wanted him to be part of the show.”
But filming took place in the midst of a pandemic in Wales and Val Kilmer could not travel for health reasons. “He couldn’t shoot with us, but he is very present in the series. It’s very exciting. The Madmartigan saga continues!”, Promises Jonathan Kasdan.
First project of Lucasfilm outside of “Star Wars”
Warwick Davis takes on once again in this series the role of Willow, farmer and amateur magician who protects a child from the clutches of Bavmorda, the evil queen of the Daikinis. The action of this new series will take place years after the events of the first film and will feature new characters.
This sequence of Willow is Lucasfilm’s first out-of-universe project Star Wars since 2015. Willow was moderately successful when it was released in 1988, but has become cult over time. Twice nominated for an Oscar, the feature film helped the development of the technique of morphing
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