Mark Hamill Is ‘Darkwing Duck’ in a New Disney+ Animated Series
Six years after news of the project first broke, Disney has greenlit a brand-new animated version of the hit 1990s show Darkwing Duck for Disney+. Mark Hamill will voice the title character, with Seth Rogen producing and providing the voice of Launchpad McQuack. The show is a continuation of the story told in the original series, which ran for 91 episodes in the early 1990s.
- ▪Six years after news of the project first broke, Disney has greenlit a brand-new animated version of the hit 1990s show Darkwing Duck for Disney+.
- ▪Mark Hamill will voice the title character, with Seth Rogen producing and providing the voice of Launchpad McQuack.
- ▪The show is a continuation of the story told in the original series, which ran for 91 episodes in the early 1990s.
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Disney is about to get dangerous. Six years after news of the project first broke, Disney has greenlit a brand-new animated version of the hit 1990s show Darkwing Duck for Disney+. Mark Hamill will voice the title character, with Seth Rogen producing and providing the voice of Launchpad McQuack. The show is a continuation of the story told in the original series, which ran for 91 episodes in the early 1990s. “For the last 35 years, Darkwing Duck has been trapped in his worst nightmare: an alternate world that’s never heard of his superhero exploits,” the official description reads. “Now a rebellious teen named Duckie who knows all about his heroic past shows up to pull this ego-fueled vigilante back into battle.
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