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Once Upon a Time: New Boss Spills the Tea on Upcoming Season 8; Gabrielle Anwar Among Five Returning Cast Members 



Once Upon a Time's is coming soon and new showrunner Matheus Ribeiro has joined us for a Q&A to tease what's next for what is expected to be the beginning of a new phase of the Once Upon a Time Universe:

First of all, I'd like to thank you for this interview. Thank you for inviting me!

Ok so, can you reveal the theme of this upcoming season? Ok... The theme is: "What's next?". We will see these characters wondering what's next for them after the end of the previous season and I believe it is an interesting theme, since they finally got their happy endings, and so we are going to question some stuff regarding their happy endings, but we will also question who those characters were.

And what can you tease about Regina's arc? Will she be dealing with those questions as well? For once in her life, she's not. Regina is fully happy, which is something that never happened with her before. Regina's arc is learning how to be the Good Queen. She is a character who's always learning and evolving, and now she has to learn how to be a good ruler.

'''At the end of season 7, the Realms of Storytelling were united into one big realm. How is this going to affect the story you are telling this year?''' Well, this is one of the major points, actually. We are going to deal with the fallout of this merge and there is one specific character — the —  that is not satisfied with the merge, and that's how our story begins.

'''When it was announced that the show was returning, you said that moving the show to Disney+ is "the beginning of a new partnership that will expand the Once Upon a Time Universe". Are there any spin-oofs in the works? Maybe a Once Upon a Time in Wonderland revival?' I can't really talk about this, but I'd love to work on spin-offs, and on a sequel season to Once Upon a Time in Wonderland''.

What can you tell us about Gideon's return? Well, not much actually. I'm really excited for his story. He is getting a true love and he is part of a really famous story that was never on the show.

Before we end this, is there any scoop you would like to give us? Ok... Maybe some returning characters?

Yes, please Ok so, I can exclusively tell you that we will see more of Lady Tremaine, Gothel, Dr. Facilier and Cinderella's mother Cecelia, as Gabrielle Anwar, Emma Booth, Daniel Francis and Cindy Luna are returning in recurring roles, while Yael Yurman is returning as young for the season premiere, who is titled "The United Realms".

Any release dates planned? We're aiming for a February 2020 release.

'''Once again, thank you for answering those questions. I'm looking forward to see what's next for all those characters''' Thank you! Always a pleasure

Once Upon a Time stars Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, Andrew J. West, Dania Ramirez, Mekia Cox, Rose Reynolds, Tiera Skovbye, Adelaide Kane, Crystal Reed, Giles Matthey and Rebecca Mader, and returns in 2020.