Game of Thrones returned in style with its first spinoff, House of the Dragon. It took a step back into history long before John Snow even took his first steps and explored the Targaryen’s heritage upon the throne. While we still haven’t seen the man who would eventually become the Mad King, we got the beginning of the end for the Targaryen reign.
It looks like the continuation of this story will take a bit more time, as Variety shared that production on the second season has just started but the Content CEO of HBO and HBO Max Casey Bloys hinted that a 2024 release “is a good guess.” Variety added that it won’t be eligible for that year’s Emmy season, which has a cut-off date of May 31st, which hints at a potential Summer release.
So, it seems we’ll have to wait a while before we see the return of Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her husband/uncle Daemon (Matt Smith). The first season jumped through quite a few different times in their lives but the upcoming second is likely to take a more focused direction similar to the original Game of Thrones, as we explore the aftermath of the war started by a prank gone wrong.
It’s a shame these time windows between seasons seemingly grow with each new high-profile entry. Stranger Things last season only started its writing room after the fourth season was released, which means the wait is also not until 2024. A lot of high-budget projects need time and it’s becoming more and more evident that they’re not spreading out as frequently as normal network series do. So, we’ll have to wait a bit longer to see those dragons soar once again.
Marvel Studios has hired Stella Meghie to direct episodes of Wonder Man. The upcoming Disney+ series is set to star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the title role. As of now, it’s unclear just how many episodes she’ll direct but it seems she’ll be responsible for multiple. She’ll be joined by Shang-Chi and future Avengers director Daniel Destin Cretton, who will take multiple episodes. Andrew Guest is set as the series head writer.
This Disney+ series makes the second time that Stella Meghie has worked with the Disney streamer, as she was also involved with the live-action series Tiana, which will continue the story from The Princess and the Frog. She acted as an executive producer on that adaptation and it seems that they were eager to work with her on another project, which led to her getting the job to direct Wonder Man. So, it seemingly worked out and she got her hands on quite a high-profile project after making a great impression on everyone involved.
It should also be noted that this series is seemingly becoming a high priority for Marvel Studios and Disney+. While details are still being kept a secret, it seems that they are quite excited to tell this Hollywood-based story that may also play a little with their own position in the industry. We know that Marvel Studios is taking a step back with its Disney+ output and they may be refocusing their projects moving forward.
Kathryn Hahn‘s Agatha Harkness quickly became one of Phase 4’s most beloved characters despite her villainous role in 2021’s WandaVision. In late 2021, an Agatha-centric spinoff show was announced to be in development by Jac Schaeffer and at SDCC ’22, Kevin Feige revealed plans for that show, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, was slated for a late 2023/early 2024 release. Now it looks like that might not be the case.
According to insider KC Walsh, Agatha: Coven of Chaos may be facing a delay in its release as Marvel Studios slows down its Disney Plus production machine.
Walsh’s information lines up with Version 4 of our Hypothetical 2024 Marvel Studios Release Calender in which we suggested that the series may end up moving “through no fault of its own.” Walsh’s report suggests that the new time for the release of Agatha: Coven of Chaos is to be determined which indicates an indefinite delay in the release of the series.
Despite the delay, there are no concerns about the project being taken off Marvel Studios’ upcoming slate. It looks set to introduce Billy Kaplan, aka Wiccan, to the MCU and given the push towards the Young Avengers assembling in the MCU and Wiccan’s prominent role on the team, the project seems incredibly important.
The Marvel Rumor mill is at it again, as we’re slowly getting some hints at the future of Marvel Studios’ ventures. While they are generally taking a bit of a step back to readjust, we’re still getting some hints at what is heading our way on Disney+ at some point in 2023. Geeks Worldwide’s KC Walsh has just shared that the next live-action series Secret Invasion may be currently eyeing a May release, but that isn’t all.
He also took to his Twitter to announce that they are hoping to release the animated X-Men: The Animated Series revival by the Fall of 2023. Not only that, but he also hints that X-Men ’97 is currently eyeing a four-season run. That is quite an exciting reveal given that there have been rumors we may expect them to also dial down their animated projects as we haven’t heard anything on them since the Season 2 renewals back in 2022’s San Diego Comic-Con.
Of course, his wording means “it’s expected to go” which hints that it’s not a definite renewal for all four seasons. There’s also the chance they may see a lot of potential to run longer, as the animated series wouldn’t be beholden by the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. We still don’t know what exactly their plans are for the animated projects, but it does seem like they are hoping to go all in with these adaptations. Here’s hoping an official announcement isn’t too far off.
As Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania join it as the most harshly reviewed film in Marvel Studios’ history, a new report indicates that 2021’s Eternals will have a sequel. Though the critical response to the film was poor and audience scores didn’t indicate it was a big hit with fans in theaters, it has found a new life on Disney Plus becoming the streaming service’s biggest film debut. It now seems possible that the streaming success of Eternals may have given the franchise new life.
According to insider KC Walsh, an Eternals sequel has been given the green light at Marvel Studios and has recently been added to the production schedule alongside the previously announced sequel to Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings.
Though no further details were provided about when the films might go into production, a quick peek at Marvel Studios’ existing slate would indicate that fans should not expect Eternals 2 or Shang-Chi 2 until 2025 at the earliest. As it stands, there are 2 untitled Marvel Studios films scheduled to release in 2025 and 3 in 2026. With news breaking now about these two projects, it’d would be reasonable to assume under normal circumstances that they’d be ready in time for 2025 but times they are a changing.
There’s been a lot of silence on Marvel Studios’ future with its next Disney+ series, Secret Invasion. So far, it seems like we’ll only get two this year which is quite the departure from the last two years that saw an onslaught of various projects that further expanded the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Yet, as we wait for any news, it seems the next Disney+ series won’t be with us for quite some time.
Geeks Worldwide KC Walsh has shared an interesting detail in regards to what we can expect from the upcoming Secret Invasion Disney+ series. While he doesn’t offer any insight into when exactly, he claims that the series is currently eyeing a May release. Of course, this may change, as he points out, especially with the tie-in film The Marvels getting pushed back to November.
Of course, May is also when we’ll get our hands on the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and if they are hoping to spread out the projects more, they may push it back into the summer. Still, if they were eyeing a May release, it would match with the original release window for The Marvels. That also would hint at Loki potentially being a later release though depending on how far along these projects are, they could also be switching to have a closer tie-in with Kang’s arrival in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Whatever series gets released this summer, we’re likely to get a trailer that’ll confirm it.
This time around writer Kelly Marcel is taking over directing duties with Tom Hardy also being heavily involved in bringing the project to life. She also wrote the screenplay for the third entry alongside its main star and it seems they may have already started work on the Venom threequel.
Hardy took to his personal Instagram account to share a video looking back at the production of the series while confirming that they are already in the pre-production stage for the threequel. Seems the video was found while working on the third part of a sequence where Eddie Brock is fighting Venom, who is in control of his body.
It’ll be interesting to see if the third entry of Venom even approaches the multiversal travel that he went through in the post-credit sequence of Spider-Man: No Way Home. There’s always the chance he may reprise the role in a future Avengers film as the Marvel Cinematic universe continues to grow its multiverse. So, the threequel may also act as a lead into his appearance in the mainline MCU once again.
One Piece showrunner Matt Owens‘ WGA page has an interesting addition that states he’s acting as Executive Producer on One Piece with a “Season Count” of two. He’s only mentioned as a showrunner for one season, but the addition of a second season for his role as Executive Producer is quite a curious addition, especially as he’s not the only one to have this season count.
The only oddity is the time window of 2022 to 2024 not matching with the showrunner designation of 2023 to 2024. Comparing it to co-showrunner Steven Maeda, the time window is given from 2022 to 2023. So, it’s odd that the production year is missing as when compared to other writers it normally is included in the timeframe. It should also be noted that Maeda does not have a second season mentioned on his WGA writer’s page as of now.
Now, what makes this so interesting is that Owens isn’t the only writer from the first season with a second-season count included. Ian Stokes, who wrote the second and seventh episodes, also has a season count of two for his role as co-Executive Producer. Fellow Episode 7 writers Lindsay Gelfand and Allison Weintraub also have two seasons included for One Piece with their shared title of Executive Story Editor.
The reason this is worth noting is that unlike IMDb not anyone can just sign up and add information to the WGA directory. As pointed out by the site, this is either verified independently by the WGAW as well as the WGAE (Writer’s Guild of America East), or information uploaded by the writers themselves. Not just anyone can make an account and upload information, which adds a little something to this inclusion but still is not a full confirmation. There’s a chance that is added accidentally or just in preparation for a potential second season if given the renewal, as they may have started at least mapping out the Alabasta Saga, which would be the focus in a second season after the East Blue.
To also contrast it, Wednesday has officially been renewed and that is something the WGA has added directly to the main site of the show with a production window of 2023 to 2024 (very likely just a temporary addition as we have no official production timeline). We don’t know if they’ve already worked on the scripts for a second season ahead of time, but curiously staff writer April G. Blair, for example, does not have a writing credit for the second season while Executive Producer and co-writer Kayla S. Alpert does.
So, it’s unclear if Blair may have returned for the second season’s writing room or generally moved on to a different project. There’s a good chance that these additions are mainly for producing credits and showcasing that work on the second season’s overarching plotlines may be worked on rather than singular scripts per episode. We still don’t have the credit for One Piece‘s fourth episode even though most have been uploaded in January.
Another comparison to highlight how WGA works is that Lauren S. Hissrich, the showrunner for The Witcher, is listed for a season count of four, which has been confirmed and they haven’t even released the third season yet. At the moment, it is still eyeing a Summer 2023 release, which will mark the final appearance of Henry Cavill in the iconic role of Gerald of Rivia but would match with them starting work on the scripts for the next season ahead of its release.
If there ever was a show that had a good chance to pull in a big viewership for a second season, it is One Piece. We’ve seen more of this project than even the other two major players rumored to release this year, the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Three-Body Problem. It doesn’t mean anything definite but if they are starting to map out a second season, they can jump into production as soon as they can once a renewal is given to avoid an issue like Stranger Things having way too long breaks between seasons. Maybe it’s a little hopeful but the potential is there.
Source: ScreenRant, The Wrap, WGA Registry, WGA (One Piece), WGA (Matt Owens), WGA (Steven Maeda), WGA (Ian Stokes), WGA (Lindsay Gelfand), WGA (Allison Weintraub), WGA (Wednesday), WGA (April G. Blair), WGA (Kayla S. Alpert), WGA (Lauren S. Hissrich)
After the harsher criticism has hit Marvel Studios’ latest release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the sudden move for The Marvels from a July release all the way back to November had many wondering if there’s a correlation. Perhaps Marvel Studios knew they needed to give the project more time and it was too late to push back Quantumania back as well, as it already started its marketing cycle; something that could’ve become quite expensive to restart at a later point.
While we’ll never truly know what reason Marvel Studios has for delaying projects, there have been hints that they are taking a step back after the rush of projects released right after the pandemic delayed everything for a year. So, ever since they’ve been playing catch-up and had the Disney+ pressure set upon them by Bob Chapek‘s reign. Now, Bob Iger returned and we’ll likely see a more familiar Marvel Studios moving forward after amore experimental season.
In a new report by The Wrap, they share that the delay for The Marvels was to give it more time in post-production, at least according to their studio insiders. It’s a surprising move as it will compete directly with Disney’s 100th-anniversary film Wish, a scare that also happened last year with the underperforming Strange World against Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Though some believe these projects won’t face a similar fate.
Still, if this report is true we’ll likely see more time windows for post-production moving forward for Marvel Studios’ productions. The thing that many might not have noticed is that non of the 2024 releases have started production. They are set to start in a few months and all films from this year filmed during 2021. So, we may see a return to normal as all productions up to this point also had to film during COVIDs high season.
Gorillaz is quite the musical phenomenon with their unique take on genre giving each new album something unique. Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn created the fictional band that would go on to leave its mark on the industry. With a new album set to release on February 24th titled Cracker Island, Albarn has been busy promoting the music group’s future. During an interview with the Belgian magazine Humo, it seems it was revealed that the Netflix film they have been working on is sadly currently in limbo.
What stands out is that the project never even left the script stages and seemingly never truly finalized to get any animation work done. The project has kind of been in existence since all the way back in 2002 but sadly nothing ever truly came together to give us a true story focused on 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle, and Russel. Interestingly enough though, this quasi-cancellation was seemingly what inspired the creation of the new album Cracker Island, which first premiered its solo by the same name starring Thundercat around six months ago.
The good thing is that each new music video does act as a continuing story for our favorite fictional band, and the same is true with the latest releases featuring a cult that was seemingly started by Murdoc. Perhaps elements from that original script made their way into these new videos and storylines that have been teased throughout new music videos. The band has been showcased in different animation styles in the past but it would’ve been amazing to see them in a live-action/animation hybrid style similar to the video from the single Cracker Island. Perhaps one day the project will come together.
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