Marvel Zombies Show Was Almost Completely Different for 1 Big Reason
An upcoming Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series wasn’t always going to be a show, but originally was conceived as a movie.
What Changed In Marvel Zombies?
Speaking to Collider in a recent interview, Marvel Zombies showrunner Bryan Andrews revealed that, prior to the series being turned into a four-part series, it was originally conceived as a movie. Andrews said that the cinematic feeling of the series still runs through the series, with the showrunner saying it feels more like a four-episode mini-event.
“Oh, no. It’s like a through line. It’s like, originally, we were thinking it’d be a movie, if like, ‘Ooh, we should release it as a movie.’ We should just do a movie,” said Andrews. “But there were some things that came up, certain issues that we just had to kind of, ‘Oh let’s break it. We’ll have to break it up into four episodes.’ So basically it’s like a four-episode mini-event, like a film broke up into four parts, basically. So yeah, it’s definitely… It’s one story. It’s one throughline. A lot of insanity happens.”
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Set in an alternate reality, Marvel Zombies reimagines the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a new generation of heroes battles against an ever-spreading zombie scourge. It will feature the voices of returning MCU stars Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings) as Katey, David Harbour (Thunderbolts*) as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings) as Shang-Chi, Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) as Scarlet Witch, Randall Park (WandaVision) as Jimmy Woo, Florence Pugh (Thunderbolts*) as Yelena Belova, Hailee Steinfeld (Hawkeye) as Kate Bishop, Dominique Thorne (Ironheart) as Riri Williams, and Iman Vellani (The Marvels) as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, with Hudson Thames (What If…?) as Spider-Man.
The series is directed by Bryan Andrews from a screenplay written by Zeb Wells, who is also serving as an executive producer. It is inspired by the fifth episode from Season 1 of What If…?, in which the MCU films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ended in a zombie apocalypse. In a press release, Andrews teased that the show will feature “more hardcore” and “pretty wild” zombie sequences, different from what was shown in What If…?
Marvel Zombies is set to release on Disney+ on September 24, 2025.
(Source: Collider)
Originally reported by Anthony Nash on SuperHeroHype.
Source: Comingsoon.net