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.
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)
Here’s an interesting rumor, but insider Daniel Richtman has once again dropped an interesting detail about the upcoming Wonder Man series. The Disney+ series will explore the day and life of Hollywood star and part-time superhero Simon Williams, who’ll be played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. While he’s the only confirmed cast so far, it seems they may have already cast his brother Eric Williams, better known as the supervillain Grim Reaper.
While it’s unclear how they’ll connect these two or if they’ll just stick to their comic origins, Richtman shares that they are currently in talks with Fear the Walking Dead and Lovecraft Country star Demetrius Grosse to take on the iconic villainous mantle. His addition makes sense given that he’s also Wonder Man’s main arch-nemesis and it adds a nice personal element to the
We don’t know exactly where they are heading with this story, and there’s also the chance that the Grim Reaper doesn’t technically exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet. Though it would be interesting for Simon to find out his own brother was a hitman that had a cybernetic scythe attached to his arm. In the comics, he was mostly a tech-based villain but they could make the change towards something more magic or energy-based depending on the story. Either way, it’s exciting to see where this series is heading once we find out more on it in the future.
We’re only a few weeks away from finally returning to the world of Din Djarin and Grogu. After a long pause and a pit stop in The Book of Boba Fett, the two reunite in the third season of The Mandalorian to continue where we left off. Din is on his journey to regain his right as a Mandalorian once more by going to the long-forgotten home planet of Mandalore.
The various trailers already teased a conflict is brewing and he’ll reunite with his brethren and sisters to take on a yet-to-be-determined threat. But, it seems like it won’t be the end for our beloved duo as showrunner Jon Favreau has revealed that he already finished writing the fourth season which has yet to be officially confirmed.
Season 4? Yeah, I’ve written it already. We have to know where we are going to tell a fully formed story. So, we had mapped it out, Dave [Filoni] and I. And then slowly you just write each episode. So I was writing it during post-production, because all of it has to feel like a continuation and one full story.
Jon Favreau
It is interesting to note that Favreau and co-creator Dave Filoni have had this habit of already working on the next season just as they were wrapping work on the previous one. So, it’s not necessarily a surprise that they already mapped out the next season but more that they’ve already finished writing it while working on the post-production. It’ll be interesting to see if the wait between this season and the next might be quite a bit shorter.
Netflix hasn’t been the kindest to its subscriber base, as many of its shows have sadly been canceled as of late. We’ve seen quite a few series not even make it past the first season but there are also some gems that returned for a second but didn’t manage to live on. It seems more and more like a rarity that a series manages to live for multiple seasons like Umbrella Academy or Stranger Things.
Among the most hoped-for returns would be the canceled Mindhunter series from the mind of Joe Penhall and David Fincher. The series followed the FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, as they worked for the Behavioral Science Unit, where they interview serial killers to better understand their minds. Sadly, it seems that Fincher has shot down any chances of a third season in an interview with the French publisher Le Journal du Dimanche.
I’m very proud of the first two seasons, but it’s a particularly expensive series and, in the eyes of Netflix, we haven’t attracted a large enough audience to justify such an investment. I don’t blame them, they took risks to launch the series.
David Fincher
It’s a shame as the second season was welcomed to much critical acclaim, but it seems viewers simply didn’t check it out back in 2019. It’s crazy to think how long it has been since the series was released and yet Mindhunter is still on the minds of many, hoping to see it finally return. Yet, as Fincher points out, it seems they just didn’t have a big enough audience to really sell a third season to Netflix. It’s been the biggest issue the streamer has faced, especially with the amount of series they put out.
They seem to go for a quantity strategy and hope a few gems might manage to pop up here or there. It does happen like with the recent success of Wednesday and The Sandman, but it’s becoming seemingly more difficult for new series to establish themselves. Netflix has put a lot of money into upcoming adaptations of Three-Body Problem, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the live-action One Piece series. So, here’s hoping they can break the curse and go on for many more seasons.
Star Wars fans are anxiously awaiting the release of Ahsoka, the live-actions series which seems to be nothing less than a direct sequel to the animated series Star Wars: Rebels. Footage of the series has been screened at a couple of different fan events and some snippets have found their way into some 2023 teasers for Disney Plus but news on the series has been scarce…until now.
During an interview with Today’s Hoda and Jenna, Ahsoka star Rosario Dawson gave fans a bit of hope about the project’s release window. “Ahsoka, that’s going to probably come out in the Fall,” Dawson said of the streaming project slated for Disney Plus. Fall is still pretty generalized but it does at least give fans something to pencil in.
With Disney Plus recently getting an overhaul in terms of the number of projects being put out and the spacing between said projects by large brands like Star Wars and Marvel Studios, streaming Ahsoka in the Fall gives it plenty of room to breathe following the third season of The Mandalorian, which kicks off on March 1st.
The end has arrived for Big Shot and Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. Disney+ is canceling both series after their recently released second seasons. Unfortunately, this became possible after senior executive, Peter Rice, was fired last June. The company noted a “culture fit,” but some speculate that it was due to how Rice spent the streaming services’ overall programming budgets.
Data for each show is not available, but it is noteworthy that neither series is in the upper echelon of streaming rankings. Additionally, series leads John Stamos and Yvette Nicole Brown will join other shows on Amazon Freevee and Bounce TV in the near future, which means they were very likely not expecting to return anytime soon anyway.
This might be the first of many cancelations moving forward that’ll reshape the streaming service’s future endeavors. The mentioning of “culture fit” is a bit bizarre, as The Mighty Ducks of all things does seem to fit quite nicely into Disney’s overall niche and the plan to make good use of pre-existing IP.
It’s unclear what exactly their plans are moving forward for the service and if we might see fewer productions rolling out. Though, it’s also possible they go down a reality TV route, which is cheaply made and easy to share on the service for younger audiences. Most shows nowadays are mainly focused on adults. So, there’s a potential market for them to make use of, as they already tested out some projects. For now, Disney+’s future remains a question mark.
Marvel Studios has started many different projects since COVID hit, and it has disrupted their usual release schedules. As we’re entering an era where less will release,e we still have no word on what exactly will happen to the various animated projects moving forward like X-Men ’97.
During San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios pretty much renewed most of their animated projects for a second season. That was, however, followed by rumors that they may not be moving forward with them until seeing if their projects even managed to pull in an audience, which is not conducive for any animated project.
Luckily, it seems that at least X-Men ’97 is moving forward even though we still have no update on the first season release. To showcase that it is moving forward, Wolverine voice actor Cal Dodd has taken to his Twitter account to share a little update on what’s been happening with the iconic voice and even sporting some familiar claws.
If they are already starting on the second season, Marvel Studios seems quite impressed with the work their team has brought to life. We still are waiting for some kind of trailer or release date but animation takes quite a bit of time to bring to life. So, they might still take some time and are recording in advance while they continue work on the production. These projects are being treated separately from the mainline Marvel Cinematic Universe and as such aren’t going to be as affected by the restructuring.
It was first rumored by Knight Edge Media just yesterday that the upcoming live-action Netflix series Avatar: The Last Airbender may have alredy found its composer in the talented Takeshi Furukawa. Now, it seems that he has officially confirmed it himself by taking to his personal Twitter account to share that he is working on the series.
Not just that, he also highlights that he is honored to “receive stewardship of the incredible themes from the original series.” As such, it seems safe to assume that we’ll very likely see a soundtrack for this new adaptation that takes a lot of inspiration from the original. Something that is surprisingly rare for most live-action adaptations given just how unique they try to make it completely their own. Though, it seems they may also re-use the original as well.
It’s a good start for the drought that we’re having with one of Netflix’s biggest adaptations. They’re putting a lot of money into bringing those series to life but seemingly have not promoted any of it if they are still hoping for a 2023 release. While they’ve rushed out high-budget projects with a three-month announcement window like Cowboy Bebop, it does seem odd they aren’t pushing it harder.
The series started producing quite a bit of time before One Piece did, but they already gave us a key visual for that adaptation to kick off the year. So, we don’t know what exactly Netflix’s plan is for its major releases this year and when exactly we can expect both series to find their way to the service without competing with each other. Maybe this will finally kickstart more announcements.
Rachel Hilson and Josh Holloway will star in J.J. Abrams and Latoya Morgan‘s series Duster. Announced in 2020, the project has officially landed a series order from HBO Max after initially only being given a development commitment by the streaming service. The first two episodes of the eight-part series are said to have been written by Abrams and Morgan, with Steph Green on board to direct them.
Holloway plays the getaway driver to Hilson’s character, Nina, a black FBI agent hoping to take down a growing crime organization. Morgan, at the very least, was not afraid to share her excitement:
“Duster is an amalgam of all my favorite things – high octane storytelling with deep characters and so much heart. It’s a dream project and I’m supremely grateful to all the folks at Warner Bros. and HBO Max for believing in this show. And I couldn’t have asked for a better partner in crime than J.J. to build this incredible world.”
Morgan
Also set to appear in Duster are Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez and Benjamin Charles Watson.
Abrams’ Bad Robot initially signed on with an overall deal at Warner Bros. Discovery in 2019. Since then, very little has become of the deal. Abrams was developing Demimondefir the streamer, but as the budget continued to grow, HBO Max ended up canceling the project. He was also working on two DC titles for HBO Max, Constantine andMadame X, both of which were passed over. And his The Shining spinoff,Overlook, moved to Netflix but was originally set up at HBO Max. So long as no further issues pop up behind the scenes, Duster looks likely to be the first project under the overall deal to make it to series.
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