Seth Rogen is not just producing Disney’s Darkwing Duck revival; he is getting in the plane. Rogen voices Launchpad McQuack, the crash-happy pilot, opposite Mark Hamill as Drake Mallard in the new Disney+ series, and his company Point Grey Pictures is producing the show that has been stuck in development for most of this decade.
What Disney has confirmed
Disney+ gave the series a full order on September 22, 2026. In the official premise, Darkwing has spent 35 years trapped in an alternate world where nobody has heard of his crime-fighting. A rebellious teenager named Duckie, who knows exactly who he used to be, drags him back into action against old enemies Negaduck and Megavolt, and toward a reunion with Launchpad, Gosalyn and Morgana.
The voice cast, per Disney’s announcement:
- Mark Hamill as Drake Mallard, aka Darkwing Duck
- Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack
- Lizzy Caplan as Gosalyn Mallard
- Lilimar as Duckie
- Dan Stevens, Tiffany Shepis, Kathryn Newton, Teo Briones, Tyler Dean Flores, Katie Rich and Nat Faxon in supporting roles
Sean Tretta and Borja Peña Gorostegui run the show as executive producers. Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Alex McAtee and Gabby Grantham produce for Point Grey, and original creator Tad Stones consulted on the new stories.
Stones sounded thrilled. “Like every other fan of the original show, I’m excited to see Darkwing getting dangerous again in a whole new series,” he said in the announcement, comparing the hero to Robin Hood, Zorro and Sherlock Holmes, characters reinvented by generation after generation.
The long road back to St. Canard
Getting here took years of false starts:
1991: The original series premieres and eventually runs to 91 episodes, with Jim Cummings as Darkwing. 2015: A reboot rumor turns out to be an April Fools’ prank. Early 2020s: Rogen and Goldberg sign on to executive produce a Disney+ reboot through Point Grey. 2022: A Disney animation employee says it was canceled; Stones later says it is still alive. March 2026: Cummings calls Rogen a “prime mover” on the project. August 2026: Cummings says he will not return and the role will be recast. September 2026: Disney orders the series with Hamill in the cape.
That makes the gap between the last original episode, in December 1992, and the new show at least 34 years. In-universe, the series leans on the same idea: Darkwing has been gone so long that the world forgot him.
Why Rogen keeps saying yes to cartoons
Point Grey has become one of the busiest names in animation. The company produced Sausage Party and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, brought The Boys and Invincible to Amazon, and made the 50th-anniversary Muppet Show special for Disney+, which won four Emmys. Badiyaa covered Rogen’s other animated project this season, Tangles, the Alzheimer’s drama with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Seth Rogen, and the wider push in adult animation, including the Filipino horror film Ella Arcangel.
Disney has not announced a premiere date. All 91 original episodes except one, the long-banned “Hot Spells,” stream on Disney+ now.
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