Marvel Studios announce animated X-Men '97, Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies series

Marvel Studios has announced on Friday that the company will be expanding its slate of animated series for Disney Plus with three new shows XMen 97 SpiderMan Freshman Year and Marvel ZombiesInstead for its first swing at the team of powerful mutant superheroes the company is reaching back to its own origin storyXMen 97 will be a continuation of the beloved 1990s XMen animated series that ran for five seasons on the Fox network from 1992 through 1997 The show which debuted in primetime before moving to Saturday mornings was such a sensation that its widely credited for convincing 20th Century Fox to make the liveaction XMen movie which launched the modern era of superhero cinema when it premiered in 2000One of the associate producers on that film was current Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige Effectively without the XMen animated series Marvel Studios probably wouldnt exist todayBeau DeMayo who wrote Netflixs animated The Witcher spinoff Nightmare of the Wolf will serve as head writer on XMen 97Meanwhile SpiderMan Freshman Year will be tied to the MCU while also evoking Marvels deeper history with an aesthetic approach that according to a press release celebrates the characters early comic book rootsAlso Read 5 Reasons why Marvel Studiosrsquo Eternals is a must watch in theatersThis show will follow Peter Parker on his journey to becoming SpiderMan within the MCU suggesting the show might dramatize this Peters origin story something the liveaction movies with Tom Holland bypassed entirely Jeff Trammel writer and actor on the Cartoon Network series Craig of the Creek is the head writerAs for Marvel Zombies it also connects to Marvel comics specifically a limited series written by Robert Kirkman with art by Sean Phillips that launched in late 2005 in which pretty much all the Avengers become well zombiesThat comic series was already loosely adapted in an episode from the first season of Marvel Studios inaugural animated series What If The alternate universe premise of the episode involved a virus that quickly infected most of the Avengers and caused a zombie apocalypse and concluded with SpiderMan voiced by Hudson Thames TChalla Chadwick Boseman and the artificially preserved head of Scott Lang Paul Rudd travelling to Wakanda with the Mind Stone to create a cure for the virus where zombie Thanos awaited them with the Infinity GauntletAs of now its unclear if Marvel Zombies will be a spinoff of the What If zombie episode or chart its own course but What If director Bryan Andrews is also set to direct the new seriesThese three new series along with Season 2 of What If and the Guardians of the Galaxy spinoff I Am Groot mark the first wave of animated shows from Marvel StudiosIn August What If executive producer Brad Winderbaum had told Variety that multiple animated series for Disney Plus were in various phases of development spurred by the discovery that animation afforded the company a wider array of storytelling opportunities not possible in liveactionAlso Read Marvel Studios Hawkeye series to debut on Disney Plus in NovemberThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever