SDCC 2024: GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH Adds Simu Liu To Main Voice Cast, Reveals Premiere Date

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• At today's GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Max let loose a flurry of exciting casting announcements for the second season of the hit animated prequel series, including news that Simu Liu will join the main cast, and John Glover - star of the "Gremlins" film sequel - will return to the franchise as a guest voice. The new season will premiere THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 on Max.
  
• 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.
  
• Liu will play the role of Chang, a handsome, impossibly charming bootlegger and son to one of San Francisco Chinatown's most powerful and influential families. His various escapades have led him to spend quite a bit of time in Alcatraz, so much so that his family believes he's dead. After a twist of fate brings him together with Sam, Elle, and Gizmo, Chang will try to get back to Chinatown while also acting as the trio's roguish guide to America.
  
• Glover is best known in Gremlins lore for playing the role of eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp in the film sequel, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch." While few details were shared about the actor's guest appearance in season two, executive producers Tze Chun and Brendan Hay hinted on the panel that audiences may get a peek into the Clamp family ancestry this season.
  
• Also announced on today's panel, Michael Paul Chan - another Amblin film alum who played Data's father in "The Goonies" - will also make a guest appearance this season alongside an all-star guest voice cast featuring Ronny Chieng, Keith David, Will Forte, Kelly Hu and Jimmy O. Yang.
  
• Credits: GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH stars Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, BD Wong, Izaac Wang, AJ LoCascio, Gabrielle Nevaeh, Simu Liu, and George Takei, among others. 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 Dan Krall serving as Supervising Producer. Joe Dante serves as consulting producer.
  

About Amblin Television:
Amblin Television is a division of Amblin Partners, a content creation company led by Steven Spielberg. Amblin Television's Presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, oversee all series development and programming for the company. Amblin Television's award-winning, culture-defining work in the scripted space include The Americans, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Rescue Me, Freaks and Geeks, Las Vegas, and, Into the West mini-series among many. Most recently, Amblin Television has produced global hits such as the limited series, Masters of the Air, for Apple, the third chapter in the Band of Brothers trilogy and the platform's most-watched series launch ever. Additionally, Amblin Television is currently producing HALO for Paramount+, Resident Alien for SyFy, Billy the Kid for MGM+, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai for Max, and Tiny Toons Looniversity for Max and Cartoon Network.

Other notable Amblin Television multi-season series include three seasons of Animaniacs for Hulu, three seasons of Roswell: New Mexico for the CW, three seasons of the CBS summer series Under the Dome; five seasons of the Noah Wyle TNT series Falling Skies; two seasons of the NBC musical-drama series Smash starring Anjelica Huston, Debra Messing, and Katharine McPhee; two seasons of the CBS series Extant starring Halle Berry; three seasons of The United States of Tara with Oscar-winning series creator Diablo Cody (Juno) and starring Emmy^® and Golden Globe^®-winning actress Toni Collette; and three seasons of the acclaimed Showtime series, The Borgias, starring Jeremy Irons.

Amblin Television is also a producer of renowned documentary features and series under the Amblin Documentaries division of Amblin Partners. Recent projects include the documentary feature Good Night Oppy for Prime Video, nominated for seven Prime Time and News and Documentary Emmys^®; the Emmy^®-winning series Five Came Back for Netflix; and Why We Hate and Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero for Discovery.

Amblin Documentaries had three series (Life on our Planet, Big Vape, and Encounters) all premiere in Netflix's top ten in the fall of 2023. Their latest title, The Bloody Hundredth, a companion documentary to Masters of the Air highlighted the real-life airmen depicted in the Apple series. Amblin Documentaries also produced Emmy nominated Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco Sounds for MGM+, in addition to Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, Mama's Boy, and a documentary on Faye Dunaway for HBO, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Amblin Documentaries is currently in production on a documentary exploring the life of John Williams.

About Warner Bros. Animation:
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. WBA's current series include Batman: Caped Crusader, Bat-Family, Batwheels, Bugs Bunny Builders, Creature Commandos, Get Jiro, Gremlins: The Wild Batch, Harley Quinn,Jellystone!, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Looney Tunes Cartoons, My Adventures with Superman, Teen Titans Go!, Tiny Toons Looniversity, and Velma. The studio is currently in production on two feature films - The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie and the upcoming original anime feature film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim with New Line Cinema. WBA's full-length theatrical film, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, was released in summer 2018. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films - including the DC Universe Movies - for DVD, Blu-ray^® and digital media. Upcoming slate for Warner Home Entertainment include Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires and Watchmen. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy Awards^®, 40 Emmy^® Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a BAFTA Children's Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parents' Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 21 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).