Christian Slater’s Willow Character Is From an Imaginary Willow Sequel

Christian Slater being a part of Disney+’s Willow is well some of the thrilling issues in regards to the sequence. Slater’s profession has spanned many years and consists of a few of our most beloved movies and reveals. He’s the form of actor who, in the event that they’re in a venture, immediately makes you extra enthusiastic about it. However, earlier to this week—and with over half the season completed—the actor had but to make his debut.

That modified with “Prisoners of Skellin,” which not solely featured Slater, however featured him in a key function that linked the story of the unique Willow movie with this new present. Just a few weeks again, io9 spoke with Willow showrunner Jon Kasdan who advised us why Slater was solid, and what the function means to the sequence.

In the episode, Slater performs Allagash, a good friend of Val Kilmer’s film character Madmartigan, who joined him on a daring journey to safe the legendary armor known as the Kymerian Cuirass. The pair, together with Madmartigan’s steward Boorman (Amar Chadha-Patel), looked for the Cuirass for 3 years, main them to Wiggleheim’s tomb within the troll mountain of Skellin. Madmartigan entered the tomb, by no means to return, and Allagash advised the trolls he was Madmartigan in order that his good friend might proceed the hunt with out being chased.

Sounds like a enjoyable film, proper? Well, that’s what Kasdan had in thoughts when casting the pivotal function.

“The idea immediately, once we saw where we were going with this, [is] there was a movie you never got to see,” Kasdan advised io9. “It came out in 1992 and it was The Adventures of Madmartigan and it had Madmartigan leading a team of adventurers on a daring quest. And we thought, ‘Who would be in that movie?’ And Christian was the first name that popped into our heads.”

It was that pitch that Kasdan used to lure Slater in. “The first thing I told Christian when I was finally able to get him on the phone was exactly what I just told you,” Kasdan stated. “And he said, ‘Absolutely, man, I would have been in that movie in a heartbeat.’”

“What’s amazing about Christian is he has a real genuine love of genre,” Kasdan continues. “He loves this kind of adventure story. He loves Star Wars, he loves swashbucklers and scoundrels, and he’s been waiting to play one. So it was sort of serendipitous when this role emerged and we wanted someone who could fill in some of the gaps in what happened to Madmartigan and what that quest would be. But the first and most obvious thing about it was that that person would not be someone we could trust. He would have to be a real con man and a double dealer and out for himself in every way. And that was the second thing I explained to Christian. And he was even more in because he does that naturally.”

Slater is great within the episode, portraying this duplicitous, boisterous however finally selfless man who, we predict, might sacrifice himself for the opposite heroes. We’ll have to attend and see if he survives or if that’s it however, both manner, Slater on Willow is a big spotlight of the season.

We’ll have extra from Kasdan and his solid as we attain the tip of the season. The first six episodes of Willow, together with Slater’s, are actually on Disney+

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