“Willow” Reviews Call it Fun, Funny, & a Little Bit Frightening

The reviews for Disney+’s Willow are arriving, and for fans of Ron Howard’s original 1988 film and intrigued newbies who love the fantasy genre, you’ll be pleased. Three decades after Howard’s film, Willow is “back as a series and better than ever,” writes the Los Angeles Times‘s Robert Lloyd. Howard’s film found an aspiring sorcerer and farmer named Willow (Warwick Davis) setting off on an epic quest to deliver a human baby found by his people to the care of the bigger people.

“Willow” Trailer Reveals Disney+’s Epic Fantasy Series

The trailer for Willow is extremely promising, both for us (ahem, older) fans of the original 1988 film, and for newcomers to the fantasy epic.

The trailer begins with some stage setting. A voiceover tells us “There is a story of a child destined to be an empress and the unlikely hero who would protect her.” That unlikely hero, as fans of Ron Howard’s original film know, is a farmer named Willow (Warwick Davis),

Disney+’s “Willow” Series Casts “Game of Thrones” Star

The cast for Lucasfilm and Disney+’s upcoming Willow series just got a major boost. Deadline reports that Game of Thrones alum Rosabell Laurenti Sellers is joining the eagerly-anticipated series, which is a spinoff of director Ron Howard’s 1988 classic fantasy feature film. The original Willow followed the journey of a young farmer named Willow (Warwick Davis) who was tasked to go on a dangerous quest to protect a special baby from the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh).