In late 2020, Murphy’s Multiverse scooped Marvel Studios’ plans to develop a Nomad project which we deduced would star Chris Evans‘ time traveling Steve Rogers. At the time, the studio had recently revealed plans for Armor Wars, Ironheart and Secret Invasion without ever mentioning Nomad, leaving fans to come to believe the latter was never truly in the works. By 2023, Marvel had still never given any indication of a Nomad project being in the works despite evidence that the studio was still working at it behind the scenes. Now, for the first time, a former Marvel employee has given some insight into the struggles to develop the project while teasing its premise.
Amid a wave of posts on X, X-Men ’97 Season 1 showrunner Beau DeMayo—who was fired from the series in March 2024–explained that Nomad fell apart when the Marvel Parliament member in charge was unable to crack the story because they had not “researched the character and that arc.”
DeMayo went on to say that the actions of Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame created a branch of reality in which Howard Stark became an evil, Hydra Iron Man and that the studio planned to take inspiration from the novel and Netflix streaming series The Man in High Castle. That would likely have been set during an alternate, dystopian post-World War II era in which Hydra achieved its goals of world domination.
It’s unclear if Nomad was intended to be a theatrical project or if it was being developed for streaming; however, it sounds as though it would have fit VERY nicely into The Multiverse Saga, creating an alternate Earth on which Hydra, not the SSR and later S.H.I.E.L.D.,
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