As part of the Disney Plus Day Event, Marvel Studios and Disney+ announced Friday that the streamer will be expanding its animated series content with three new shows – X-Men ’97, Spider-Man: Freshman Year, and Marvel Zombies, according to Variety. Yet another adaptation from the limited series written by Robert Kirkman (Invincible) will be written in Marvel Zombies, alongside the loosely adapted episode of Marvel Studios’ What If…?., which debuted on the streamer in September.
In the What If…? episode, a virus infects most of the Avengers, resulting in a zombie apocalypse, in which Spider-Man, voiced by Hudson Thames (The A-List), T’Challa, voiced by Chadwick Boseman (42), and the artificially preserved head of Scott Lang, voiced by Paul Rudd (Clueless), travel to Wakanda with the Mind Stone in-hand, in an attempt to innovate a cure for the virus. At this point, it’s still unclear whether Marvel Zombies will be a spin-off or continuation of the What If…? episode, however, it will be directed by What If…? director Bryan Andrews (Iron Man 2).
Marvel Zombies, X-Men’97, Spider-Man: Freshman Year, as well as the second season of What If…? and I Am Groot, serve as Marvel Studios’ first wave of animated content, with more on the way according to executive producer Brad Winderbaum (Item 47).
“Any project that we create is going to be something that needs to be animated in order for the story to be told,” he said. “There’s very little desire to take a piece of IP that’s popular because we’re coming out with a movie and just make an animate show about it. We’re not going to do that,” via Variety.