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‘Gremlins: The Wild Batch’ – 5 New Episodes Now Streaming on Max
The Max original animated prequel series “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” has returned to the streaming service with the season’s back half, which includes FIVE brand new episodes.
Timothy Olyphant, Robin Weigert, Yvette Nicole Brown and SungWon Cho have joined the show’s ensemble of voice actors, along with Gremlins 2 star John Glover!
Glover, who played Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch in 1990, is playing a character named Rodney in “The Wild Batch” – and he’s got a connection to the Clamp family.
Watch a clip from Season 2, Episode 6 below to explore that connection.
Here’s everything you need to know about the final five episodes…
Episode 6 – “Never Get Out of the Truck”
- Our heroes journey west to free Elle’s mother, but first must free themselves from a haunted old mansion.
Episode 7 – “Always Ask for Backstory”
- Still on their western quest, our heroes are recruited to help an unusual town with their own supernatural problem: nightly hauntings by a legendary ghost.
Episode 8 – “Never Try the Cider”
- To reach their destination, our heroes pass through the resting place for all of the west’s wildest tall tales and legends. However, its temptations might finally unleash Gizmo’s inner Evil Mogwai.
Episode 9 – “Always or Never Make Wishes”
- As they make a treacherous journey into a mysterious desert tomb, Sam and Elle must choose between saving Elle’s mother or heeding Grandpa’s warning, all while Gizmo’s gone missing.
Episode 10 – “Always Make the Hard Choice”
- Our heroes must find a way to reunite if they want any hope of defeating a massive, monstrous force before it destroys America.
As a reminder, “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” is technically the second season of the Max Original animated prequel series that kicked off with “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.”
Taking place one year after the events of season one, “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” follows Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel from their home in Shanghai to San Francisco, bringing even more magic, mystery and Mogwai mayhem. Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.
The series is produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation. Steven Spielberg serves as executive producer, along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Presidents of Amblin Television, and Sam Register, President, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. Tze Chun serves as showrunner and executive producer. Brendan Hay serves as executive producer with Michael Chang and Dan Krall serving as Supervising Producers.
Joe Dante serves as consulting producer of the animated series.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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