- Marvel is working with writer-producer Andrew Guest to develop a live-action series based on Wonder Man.
- Writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton will executive produce and maybe direct one or more episodes.
- The Shang-Chi director signed an overall deal with Marvel Studios in the wake of Shang-Popularity.
The Wonder Man film is still in the early phases of development, but if everything goes well, the cameras might be rolling in 2023.
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Wonder Man is one of Marvel’s earliest characters, having originally appeared in Avengers #9 in 1964. In the early Marvel Age, he was mostly a villain who only appeared on occasion, but in the late 1970s, he was reimagined as a hero (and Avenger).
Since releasing WandaVision in early 2021, Marvel has been consistently busy with its Disney+ series. Ms. Marvel is in the middle of its run and receiving some of the highest reviews of any Marvel programme thus far, while the recently concluded streaming Moon Knight is currently in Emmy Award campaign mode. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will be released in August, followed by the Samuel L. Jackson-directed Secret Invasion and Ironheart.
Beyond that, a half-dozen projects are in the works, including a second season of Loki and a new Daredevil series.
Aside from Wonder Man, Cretton is working on a sequel to Shang-Chi and will direct and executive produce a Disney+ series based on Gene Luen Yang’s comic novel American Born Chinese.
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Guest has a comedic background, with credits on series like 30 Rock and Marry Me, but he also has Marvel experience: Hawkeye, the series starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld and recognised for its lighthearted approach to heroism and sidekicks, has him as a consulting producer.
WME and Goodman Genow represent Cretton. UTA, Mosaic, and McKuin Frankel represent Guest.
