It's been so long since we had any updates on this one, fans were beginning to think it may have fallen by the wayside, but Warner Bros. Discovery has now released the first trailer for its upcoming Gremlins animated prequel series, Secrets of the Mogwai.
The 8-episode show is set long before the events of the '80s classic, and focuses on a young Sam Wing's first encounter with a mysterious, adorable little creature known as Gizmo, who takes a lot of looking after.
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Check out the teaser below. Secrets of the Mogwai is set to premiere on the newly-rebranded Max streaming service on May 23.
Ming-Na Wen (Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D, The Mandalorian) will play young Sam Wing's (the store owner played by Keye Luke in the movies) mother Fong Wing, who is described as a doctor of Chinese medicine who is “resourceful, slyly funny and fiercely protective of her family.”
BD Wong (Mr. Robot, Jurassic World) will provide the voice of her husband Hon, who is characterized as a “calm rock” that has “never believed his father-in-law’s tales of magic and adventure.”
James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China) will play Grandpa, and Matthew Rhys (The Americans, Perry Mason) is on board as the villainous Riley Greene, "a power-hungry English industrialist and treasure hunter who wields black magic that is determined to stop at nothing in his pursuit of Gizmo and the mythical treasure of the Mogwai."
Gizmo will be voiced by A.J. LoCascio (Voltron: Legendary Defender).
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai will be set long before the events of the '80s classic in 1920s Shanghai. The 10-episode season "reveals the story of how naïve 10-year-old Sam Wing met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins."