{"id":116781,"date":"2024-01-18T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/18\/selena-gomez-to-guest-star-in-pilot-for-wizards-of-waverly-place-sequel-series\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:02:43","slug":"selena-gomez-to-guest-star-in-pilot-for-wizards-of-waverly-place-sequel-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/18\/selena-gomez-to-guest-star-in-pilot-for-wizards-of-waverly-place-sequel-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez to guest-star in pilot for &#8216;Wizards of Waverly Place&#8217; sequel series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/Getty_WizardsofWaverlyPlace_011824.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>L-R:  Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin in &#8216;Wizards of Waverly Place,&#8217; Bob D&#8217;Amico\/Disney Channel via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong>\u00a0is going back to her roots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/01\/wizards-of-waverly-place-revival-disney-selena-gomez-1235795858\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>\u00a0reports that Selena will guest-star in a pilot for a sequel series to her old Disney Channel show<em>\u00a0Wizards of Waverly Place,<\/em>\ufeff\u00a0reprising her role as Alex Russo. While she wouldn&#8217;t continue to star in the series, if it&#8217;s picked up, she&#8217;ll executive produce it with her former co-star\u00a0<strong>David Henrie<\/strong>, who played Justin Russo in the original series.<\/p>\n<p>According to<em>\u00a0<\/em>Deadline, the sequel series will pick up after &#8220;a mysterious incident at WizTech, where an adult Justin Russo has left his wizard powers behind, opting for a normal, human life with his wife and two sons. But he gets a surprise when a powerful young wizard in need of training shows up at his door \u2026 and Justin must embrace his past to ensure the future of the Wizard World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original<em>\u00a0Wizards of Waverly Place<\/em>\u00a0aired on the Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012. Selena starred on the show after appearing on two other Disney Channel shows:<em>\u00a0The Suite Life of Zack and Cody<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0Hannah Montana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Disney is the parent company of ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-R: Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin in &#8216;Wizards of Waverly Place,&#8217; Bob D&#8217;Amico\/Disney Channel via Getty Images Selena Gomez\u00a0is going back to her roots. Deadline\u00a0reports that Selena will guest-star in a pilot for a sequel series to her old Disney Channel show\u00a0Wizards of Waverly Place,\ufeff\u00a0reprising her role<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/01\/18\/selena-gomez-to-guest-star-in-pilot-for-wizards-of-waverly-place-sequel-series\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}