What’s that, a hat? No, it’s a Wizards of Waverly Position solid reunion!
“The Russos ❤️🪄coming back,” David DeLuise and David Henrie, who performed father and son on Wizards of Waverly Position, captioned a joint Instagram submit on Friday, January 26.
DeLuise, 52, and Henrie, 34, have been all smiles as they posed along former costars Selena Gomez and Maria Canals-Barrera.
Wizards of Waverly Position — which introduced Gomez, now 31, to popularity — at the beginning aired on Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012. Henrie, Gomez and Jake T. Austin performed the 3 Russo siblings, who have been secretly wizards-in-training whilst balancing standard youngster lives in New York Town. Information broke previous this month that Henrie and Gomez, who performed the eldest Russo siblings Justin and Alex, would reprise their roles in a brand new TV pilot.
“You guys are gonna LOVE the new Wizards show!” Wizards mother Canals-Barrera, 57, gushed by way of Instagram on Friday.
A number of former Wizards visitor stars commented at the candy reunion pics.
“This makes me soooo happy,” Bailee Madison, who in brief performed a gender-swapped model of Austin’s Max at the ultimate season, wrote by way of Instagram remark.
Josh Sussman, for his phase, added, “The best TV family! ❤️❤️❤️.”
Henrie and Gomez introduced on January 18 that they have been generating a by-product of Wizards of Waverly Position that can revolve round a grown-up Justin (Henrie) and his circle of relatives. Justin, who ended the OG sequence finale as a full-wizard and the headmaster of wizarding faculty WizTech, has since given up his powers. Within the pilot, he'll go back to the sector of magic when he meets a tender wizard named Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) wanting a mentor. It's not but recognized what Alex (Gomez) has been as much as within the new sequence.
Gomez and her former TV circle of relatives have steadily stayed involved because the display wrapped. She and Henrie have even been perfecting their reboot pitch for years.
“Nothing has happened yet, but there’s a lot of talk [of a revival],” Henrie instructed Get right of entry to in August 2020. “We all talk about it for fun. Everyone would be down, but it’s just a matter of time, I think. We’ve talked about it: Gregg [Sulkin], Selena, me, Jake. I think, what we said [about] what made the show special was that we were a family and that the family stuff together was like a family unit.”
He persisted on the time: “I think a great place to start the [potential new] show would be the opposite version of that, so you have somewhere to go throughout the series. So, if you started the show where the family’s divided, and not united.”
Henrie additional speculated that Gomez’s Alex could be a big fashionista, like “the Meryl Streep of the wizard world,” whilst Austin’s Max would personal a series of sub retail outlets. (Whilst Max misplaced the wizard festival within the OG sequence finale, Jerry gave him the keys to the circle of relatives’s sandwich eating place.)