If you’re a fan of the Gremlins films, then it’s been a long 33-year wait to get anything new in the official mythology. With a third live-action installment in the film series never getting past development, it finally took executive producers/writers Tze Chun and Brendan Hay to pitch an animated prequel, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, for the patient creatures to get a chance to wreak more havoc.
Set in 1920s Shanghai, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai reveals how Gizmo the Mogwai came to be in the possession of Mr. Wing (Keye Luke), his human caretaker introduced in the first film. The animated series enters the past to show his life as a child, when young Sam Wing (Izaac Wang) was a responsible little boy helping his parents, Fong (Ming-Na Wen) and Hon (BD Wong), alongside Grandpa (James Hong) run their family medicine shop.
