DuckTales is an American animated television series, developed by Matt Youngberg and Francisco Angones, and produced by Disney Television Animation. The series is a reboot of the original 1987 series of the same name, which focused on the lives of Scrooge McDuck
and his family as they engaged on a variety of adventures around the
world and the fictional city of Duckburg. The reboot itself focuses on
newer elements and deeper character stories, including a greater
involvement of Donald Duck. The series premiered on August 12, 2017, with a 44-minute long pilot episode on Disney XD, before the first season was green-lit for broadcast from September 23 that year on Disney XD;[3][4] between May 2018 to September 2019, the series was moved to Disney Channel for the second half of the first season and the duration of the second season, then back on Disney XD for its third season.
Since its release, the reboot has generated positive reviews from
critics and audiences, as well as a comic book series and several online
episodes.
After not speaking to each other for ten years, Scrooge McDuck reunites with his estranged nephew Donald Duck when he asks him to babysit his three triplet nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie for the day. During which, Scrooge regains his sense of adventure, and he invites Donald and the boys to live at McDuck Manor with him, along with his housekeeper Mrs. Beakley and her granddaughter Webby Vanderquack. Together, along with Scrooge's limo driver and crash-prone pilot Launchpad McQuack
as their means of transport, the Ducks go on many new treasure-hunting
expeditions and globe-trotting adventures while contending with villains
like Flintheart Glomgold, the Beagle Boys, and Mark Beaks.
In season one, Dewey and Webby set out to find the truth about
Scrooge and Donald's strained relationship and the unexplained
disappearance of the boys’ mother and Donald's twin sister Della Duck, while the sorceress Magica De Spell manipulates events to facilitate her return and get revenge on Scrooge for imprisoning her in his Number One Dime for fifteen years.
In season two, Scrooge and Glomgold compete to become the richest
duck in the world by the end of the year while Louie tries to start up
his own multi-million dollar business in hopes of following in Scrooge's
footsteps. Della reunites with her family after she escapes from the Moon and adjusts to her newfound motherhood, unaware that the Moonlanders are planning to invade Earth.
In season three, the criminal organization F.O.W.L.
plot to eliminate the Ducks following the Moonlander invasion. After
the Ducks discover the lost adventure journal of the legendary explorer
Isabella Finch, which leads to several lost treasures that F.O.W.L.'s
after, the two forces race to find them first.
Voice cast
- David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck
- Danny Pudi as Huey Duck
- Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck
- Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck
- Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack
- Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack
- Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley
- Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
- Paget Brewster as Della Duck (main season 3, recurring season 2, guest season 1)
Production
Matt
Youngberg and Francisco Angones grew up watching the original series
and had always wanted to develop an updated version for a newer
generation. Youngberg said, "We're hoping that in thirty years, the kids
who watch our show will then be bringing back the next version of DuckTales because they loved what we did so much."[7]
In May 2015, Terry McGovern,
the original voice of Launchpad McQuack, stated in an interview that
the entire voice cast from the original series would not be returning
for the reboot, which made him "heartsick" at the news.[8] The new voice cast for the series was revealed on December 16, 2016 in a video where they sing an a cappella version of the original theme song in promotion of the news.[9][10][11] The following May, Lin-Manuel Miranda was announced as the voice of Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Gizmoduck.[12]
The character was changed to being Latino due to Lin-Manuel's heritage
and because Angones felt that there were not enough positive Latino
superheroes.[7] In June, more cast members, including Tony Anselmo reprising his role as Donald Duck, were announced,[13] and during the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, Disney announced that Darkwing Duck would also make an appearance in the TV series.[14]
At the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, several characters from other Disney Television Animation cartoons were revealed to appear in the show's third season; the Rescue Rangers from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers; Kit Cloudkicker and Molly Cunningham from TaleSpin; Rhinokey and Butterbear from The Wuzzles, and Gosalyn Mallard and Taurus Bulba from Darkwing Duck, as well as Chip 'n Dale (based on their Rescue Rangers incarnations), Goofy (based on his Goof Troop incarnation), and Daisy Duck.[15]
The art style of the show is heavily influenced not just by Carl Barks' original Uncle Scrooge comics, but also some of Barks' paintings.[16][2] The theme song, written by Mark Mueller for the 1987 series, was re-recorded for the 2017 reboot.[17] It was arranged by Michael "Smidi" Smithand and TJ Stafford and sung by Felicia Barton.[18]
Donald Duck has a larger role in this version compared to the
1980s version. The earlier version had been restricted by an edict from The Walt Disney Company
stating that the television studio could not use Donald or any of the
other stars from Disney's Golden Age shorts, only allowing Donald to
make short cameos to set up storylines;[19] this restriction was lifted shortly after the original version of DuckTales ended.
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