Warwick Davis is undoubtedly one of the busiest men in showbusiness, working in a number of hugely successful franchises as well as forging his own niche on British TV. Here he chats with News.com about the saga and more. Here he chats about a potential Willow sequel.
Q: How do you make a sequel happen?
“I don’t know, it’s just one of those things. The interesting thing now is Disney has acquired Lucasfilm and all of their library and back catalogue. I notice now whenever Willow is shown on terrestrial television in the UK, it’s known as ‘Disney’s Willow’. So they’ve very much kind of branded it now. [The question is] whether they’re going to look back over the catalogue and think, ‘That’s something we can look at doing.’ I mean, the reimagining of The Lion King has just been announced, so they often look back at work they’ve done and like to reimagine it, and they’ve been very successful — Maleficent, Beauty and the Beast next year. There are a lot of films that have worked very well. So [maybe] a reimagining, but I think a sequel would be much better — because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to play Willow! I was talking to George Lucas and Ron Howard about this many years ago, and I said, ‘Everyone would love to see another Willow movie.’ George said, ‘Yeah, yeah, we could do that, couldn’t we, Ron? The only thing is we’d have to recast because you’re too old.’ I think that was George’s wry sense of humour.”
