{"id":24492,"date":"2022-11-27T02:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/willow-star-warwick-davis-on-revisiting-the-fantasy-franchise\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T02:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:35:54","slug":"willow-star-warwick-davis-on-revisiting-the-fantasy-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/willow-star-warwick-davis-on-revisiting-the-fantasy-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Willow&#8217; Star Warwick Davis on Revisiting the Fantasy Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/warwick-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warwick Davis<\/a> is aware of an epic story when he sees one. The man who made his mark in two franchises \u2014 as Wicket the Ewok in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/star-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a> and each Griphook and Filius Flitwick in <em>Harry Potter <\/em>\u2014 says he \u201calways wanted to revisit the character\u201d that positioned him on the middle of all of the motion: the title would-be sorcerer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ron-howard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Howard<\/a>\u2019s 1988 fantasy movie<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/willow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Willow<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019 want is granted on this collection that takes place a long time after Willow helped ship a child \u2014 the longer term\u2019s supposed savior \u2014 to Queen Sorsha (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/joanne-whalley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joanne Whalley<\/a>, who additionally returns), safeguarding peace of their rural world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1071338\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071338\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1071338 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-1014x570.jpg\" alt=\"Warwick Davis in 'Willow'\" width=\"1014\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-1014x570.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-1420x798.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis-570x321.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/willow-season-1-warwick-davis.jpg 2027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1071338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Disney+\/Lucasfilm)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this sequel, Willow is one among six chosen people out to rescue Prince Airk (Dempsey Bryk), Sorsha\u2019s son with lacking rogue Madmartigan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/val-kilmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Val Kilmer<\/a>). Kilmer, a throat most cancers survivor, skipped filming, however his character will get loads of mentions.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, there\u2019ll be extra <em>Willow<\/em>, and Kilmer part of it. \u201cIf I can still stand, I\u2019ll do it,\u201d Davis says, \u201cand Val should be standing next to me.\u201d That could be epic.<\/p>\n<p>While Kilmer will not be there, behind the scenes, Ron Howard returns as an govt producer alongside Jonatha Kasdan, Wendy Mericle, Kathleen Kennedy, and Michelle Rejwan. And past Bryk, the world welcomes new forged members together with Ruby<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> Cruz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/erin-kellyman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin Kellyman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ellie-bamber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellie Bamber<\/a>, Tony <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Revolori, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/amar-chadha-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amar Chadha<\/a><\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u2013<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Patel<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss the journey for your self, tune into <em>Willow<\/em> when it comes bounding onto Disney+ this fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Willow<\/em>, Series Premiere, Wednesday, November 30, Disney+<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Warwick Davis is aware of an epic story when he sees one. The man who made his mark in two franchises \u2014 as Wicket the Ewok in Star Wars and each Griphook and Filius Flitwick in Harry Potter \u2014 says he \u201calways wanted to revisit the character\u201d that positioned him on the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}