Horror History: Big Happy Birthday to MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE’s Emilio Estevez
Mike Sprague
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On this day in horror history, actor Emilio Estevez was born in Bronx, NY in 1962. Estevez is best known around these parts for Alex Cox’s Repo Man with Harry Dean Stanton. And also Stephen King’s horror-comedy Maximum Overdrive.
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Other genre projects include Men at Work, Freejack, and also Judgment Night.
Outside of the horror genre, he is known for John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. Plus, The Outsiders, St. Elmo’s Fire, Loaded Weapon 1, and Young Guns and Young Guns II.
Not to mention is role as Coach Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks, D2: Mighty Ducks, and D3: Mighty Ducks. Fittingly, his most recent role is reprising Coach Bombay in Disney Plus’ Mighty Ducks reboot.
Maximum Overdrive begins after a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth. Machines come to life and turn against their makers. Holed up in a North Carolina truck stop, a group of survivors must fend for themselves against a mass of homicidal trucks. A diner cook, Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), emerges as the unlikely leader of the pack, attempting to find an escape plan for himself and the survivors, who include his boss, Bubba Hendershot, and a newlywed couple.
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