Animated X-Men, Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies Series
Marvel Studios announced that the company is expanding its slate of animated series for Disney Plus with three new shows: “X-Men 97”, “Spider-Man: Freshman Years” and “Marvel Zombies.” After Disney bought 20th Century Fox in 2019, and the “X-Men” movie franchise was in its final stages with the poorly received “Dark Phoenix” and “The New Mutants,” many observers have called for the X-Men from Marvel Studios. expected to reboot. As Variety.com reports, the characters will be reintroduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Instead, for its first swing at a team of mighty mutant superheroes, the company is reaching back on its origin story: “X-Men 97” will be a continuation of the beloved 1990s “X-Men” animated series, which many Lasted for years. Five seasons on the Fox network from 1992 to 1997.
The show, which debuted in primetime before leaving Saturday morning, was such a sensation that it is widely credited with making 20th Century Fox the live-action “X-Men” film that marked the modern era of superhero cinema. was launched at the time of the premiere. in 2000.
One of the associate producers of that film was the current head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige. Effectively, without the “X-Men” animated series, Marvel Studios probably wouldn’t have existed. Beau Demaio, who wrote Netflix’s animated “The Witcher” spin-off “Nightmare of the Wolf,” will serve as lead writer on “X-Men 97.” The show is set to premiere in 2023.
“Spider-Man: Freshman Year,” meanwhile, will tie in to the MCU, while also highlighting Marvel’s darker history, with an aesthetic approach that, according to a press release, “celebrates the character’s early comic book roots.” Is”.
The show would follow Peter Parker on his journey to become Spider-Man within the MCU, suggesting that the show could dramatize this Peter’s origin story, with Tom Holland skipping the live-action films entirely. Gaya.
As far as ‘Marvel Zombies’ is concerned, it also links to Marvel Comics, notably a limited series with art by Sean Phillips written by Robert Kirkman that launched in late 2005 that includes almost all of the Avengers, Well, become zombie.
Marvel Studios’ first animated series ‘What If?’ That comic series had already been loosely adapted in an episode of the first season of. The premise of the episode’s alternate universe includes a virus that quickly infects most of the Avengers and causes a zombie apocalypse, and the Mind Stone with the artificially guarded chief of Spider-Man, T’Challa and Scott Lang. Travels to Wakanda with Prepare a cure for the virus, where the zombie awaits them with the Thanos Infinity Gauntlet.
It is not clear that ‘Marvel Zombies’ ‘What If?’ Will there be a spin-off or not? ‘What if?’ Season 2 marks the first wave of Marvel Studios animated shows, along with three new series and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” spin-off “I’m Groot.”
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