{"id":11569,"date":"2026-07-10T02:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11569"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:44:39","slug":"free-willy-set-for-a-comeback-with-russo-brothers-produced-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/free-willy-set-for-a-comeback-with-russo-brothers-produced-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Willy Set For A Comeback With Russo Brothers Produced Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/free-willy-set-for-a-comeback-with-russo-brothers-produced-reboot.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA_divider__FIEES\" \/><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Long before the MCU came along and set the template for the modern cinematic universe, there was another interconnected, multimedia franchise driving the kids wild: The FWCU. Yes, folks, the <em>Free Willy<\/em> Cinematic Universe. Spanning three movies (who can forget \u2014 or indeed remember \u2014 <em>Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home<\/em> or <em>Free Willy 3: The Rescue<\/em>) , an animated TV series, two CD-ROM games, and a DTV reboot, the continuing adventures of orphaned boy Jesse and his orca pal won the hearts \u2014 and wet the eyes \u2014 of families the world over. Now, per <em>THR<\/em>&#8216;s reporting, Free Willy is about to be unleashed upon a whole new generation.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. and The Russo Brothers&#8217; AGBO production company are teaming up to reimagine <em>Free Willy<\/em> for a modern audience, with <em>Miller&#8217;s Girl<\/em> producer-writer duo Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett aboard to write the screenplay. Whether the new <em>Free Willy<\/em> will exist in the same world as Simon Wincer&#8217;s cult classic \u2014 or follow the same foundational orphaned-kid-befriends-captive-orca narrative \u2014 very much remains to be seen at this point, as does the approach Kunze and Bartlett will take here to their whale-y big star. In the original movies, actual orca Keiko stole our hearts as the eponymous Willy, helping undo generations of misinformation and myth-making surrounding the killer whale as a species. One would suspect a modern-day Willy will be some sort of at least partially CG-constructed beast \u2014 but who knows?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>With Brian Duffield&#8217;s sperm whale epic <em>Whalefall<\/em> mere months away, and now the return of <em>Free Willy<\/em> to <em>*checks notes*<\/em> look forward to, perhaps we&#8217;ve misdirected our energy into the Welsh New Wave. Clearly, the Whale New Wave is upon us. All hail the new blubber!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-links-container\" data-test=\"source-links\">\n<h2 class=\"sourceUrl_h2__0dV2J\">Sources Links<\/h2>\n<p>THR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the MCU came along and set the template for the modern cinematic universe, there was another interconnected, multimedia franchise driving the kids wild: The FWCU. Yes, folks, the Free Willy Cinematic Universe. Spanning three movies (who can forget \u2014 or indeed remember \u2014 Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home or Free Willy 3: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}