Selena Gomez Returning To Disney For Wizards Of Waverly Place Sequel Series!!!
18.01.2024 - 22:29
/ perezhilton.com
OMG! Selena Gomez is going back to Disney Channel!!
Turns out the actress isn’t done with the Wizard World just yet! In an exciting and unexpected announcement on Thursday, Deadline revealed Selena and her former co-star David Henrie have reunited to executive produce a Wizards of Waverly Place spin-off series — and Disney Branded Television officially picked it up for a pilot! And get this, Selly and David are gonna star in it!
Whaaaa????
The sequel series will begin after “a mysterious incident at WizTech” occurs. It’ll focus on David’s character Justin Russo, who has left his powers behind to live a normal life with his wife and two kids. But everything changes when a “powerful young wizard” in need of training shows up at his door and he “must embrace his past to ensure the future of the Wizard World.” That new wizard, Billie, will be played by the show’s lead Janice LeAnn Brown. Also in the cast? Alkaio Thiele will star as Roman Russo, Justin’s oldest son, and Mimi Gianopulos will play his wife, Giada. Selena will be in the pilot, at the very least, and David will be a series regular, FYI.
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So far, no word on whether other former cast members like Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera, or David DeLuise will return. Minus Henrie, they all participated in a TV movie, The Wizards Return: Alex Vs. Alex, in 2013, after the end of the series, so it’s likely they’d want to be involved. (Wow, it’s been over a decade since even that!!!) Jen and David also have a rewatch podcast going right now. So, hopefully, we’ll get to see them all again in some fashion!
Right now, the only other people definitely involved are the pilot’s writers and executive producers J