First Look: Gremlins animated series Secrets of the Mogwai!

July 1st 2019, 3:25pm

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Hell, yeah! It looks like that GREMLINS Animated Series we told you guys about a while back is actually coming soon. The series will be called Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai and today we have your first look at the series via a banner poster which you can check out above!

The half-hour series has received a 10-episode order at the WarnerMedia streaming service. Here's the rundown:

Set in 1920s Shanghai, the series tells how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) 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.

Tze Chun will write the series and serve as co-executive producer. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television will executive produce along with Sam Register. Brendan Hay will also co-executive produce with Dan Krall serving as supervising producer. Amblin will produce in association with Warner Bros. Animation. How excited are YOU for this GREMLINS animated series? Let us know below!

The first film followed:

A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the `Mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.

The original classic creature feature was directed by Joe Dante from a screenplay written by THE GOONIES scribe Chris Columbus. Michael Finnell produced the pint-sized fright flick which starred Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, and Corey Feldman.