As Marvel Television looks to launch its 2025 live-action slate with Daredevil: Born Again, a trade report has revealed that the future of streaming remains undefined. According to Deadline, the studio has paused the development of three streaming series including Strange Academy, which had never been acknowledged by the studio but had been widely reported on by insiders.
Created by Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos, Marvel Comics Strange Academy debuted in 2020 and focused on a new generation of magic users being trained in the mystic arts at a Hogwarts-esque school opened by Stephen Strange. Classes at Strange Academy were led by an array of Marvel mages including Doctor Voodoo, Wanda Maximoff, Wong, Magik and, yes, Agatha Harkness and covered a range of topics from astral projections to interdimensional geography to xenoanatomy.
First reported to be in the works in early 2023, Marvel Studios was developing Strange Academy as a vehicle for Benedict Wong‘s Wong and Xochitl Gomez‘s America Chavez. After disappearing from the news cycle for nearly two years, recent rumblings from insider Daniel Richtman and social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello seemed to indicate the studio was moving forward with the series.
The delay is the first time Marvel has acknowledged the series was in development and following Deadline’s report, both Richtman and fellow insider, Jeff Sneider, have revealed more information in follow up reports. According to Richtman, Strange Academy was far enough along in development that Marvel Television had planned to have Echo director Amy Rardin helm the pilot episode which would introduce the school and its mission to train the next generation of sorcerers.
Despite the delay, Sneider’s report comes with a bit of hope for the adaptation. As with Nova, Sneider’s sources believe that Strange Academy will eventually be moved back into active development once the studio has a better handle of what it’s next mystic-centric project, Doctor Strange 3, will be all about.
Source: Deadline, The Insneider
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