Disney Announces “Angels In The Octagon”

Disney announced this week that its new “Angels In the Octagon” will be set in the popular cage-fighting world of mixed martial arts.

Billed as a ‘spiritual sequel’ to the 1994 hit family film “Angels in the Outfield,” the new movie will see its mischievous angels help land head kicks and double-leg takedowns instead of hit home runs and throw fastballs.

Like its predecessor, it is set to center around a foster kid whose sports prayers are answered by real angels after his dad makes an empty promise that they’ll be a family again if a long-shot MMA fighter becomes a UFC Bantamweight Champ.

Fans have been happy to learn much of the original cast is set to return. “I’m going to deliver just as many silly hijinks in this film as in the last,” Christopher Lloyd said in a popular Instagram story, before demonstrating the new guillotine chokehold he learned for the movie. 

Meanwhile, Young Sheldon’s Iain Armitage will instigate the divine intervention when he prays for the success of Joseph Gordon Levitt’s down-on-his-luck fighter. “The funniest scene is when the angels beat someone unconscious without Joseph even touching them,” laughed Armitage in a promo for “Extra.”

Whether or not this new iteration will be as beloved as the first remains to be seen. “I think we captured the wholesomeness of the original while updating the action for modern audiences,” said Disney CEO Bob Chapek. “MMA is the third most popular sport on the planet, and we will literally sell our souls—or in this case angels—for an international audience.”