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Deadline reported that the Wonder Man series of the MCU would have ten episodes during a June 2024 story disclosing Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Netflix hiring. With no previous live-action series including 10 episodes, this will shatter a 3-year-old record for the MCU's TV shows: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is the most recent longest show. Six episode long series comprise most of Marvel Studios' TV shows; considering some complaints that these stories just aren't lengthy enough, a lengthier episode roster for Wonder Man seems prepared to solve these issues.
Originally supposed to be claimed by Daredevil: Born Again, the 18-episode first season has now been split into two nine-episode runs, so Wonder Man's will still be the first to hit this goal. Marvel Studios finds Abdul-Mateen II to be a great fit, hence it's fantastic that he has been given ten episodes to explore his nuanced character so providing him enough time to make his impact on the MCU.
Marvel Studios revealed a new release banner for a range of their forthcoming TV programs in November 2023. Marvel was informed by Head of Streaming, Brad Winderbaum, that the new banner would center "grounded, character-driven stories... focusing on street-level stakes over larger MCU continuity." Confirmed to be the next series under the Marvel Spotlight label, Wonder Man may help to explain why it is also the longest MCU debut season ever.
Marvel Spotlight provides us with a stage to bring more grounded, character-driven stories to the screen, and in Echo, stressing street-level stakes over broader MCU continuity. Our audience doesn't need to have watched other Marvel series to get what's occurring in Maya's story, much as comic book aficioners did not need to read Avengers or Fantastic Four to appreciate a Ghost Rider Spotlight comic.
Set to surpass a 3-year-old live-action record for TV episodes in the MCU, Marvel Studios' next Wonder Man series is Following the launch of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings with great success, director Destin Daniel Cretton signed a multi-year contract to work on further Marvel Studios projects. One of these is a Disney+ show centered on Marvel Comics' Simon Williams' Wonder Man, a superhero-turned-actor. Although the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led series does not yet have a set release date, the Wonder Man series from the MCU is already surpassing all previous iterations.
Wonder Man started his Marvel Comics career as a villain, but he later fought alongside Marvel's greatest heroes, therefore he could be a major player in the MCU's future. Given he is scheduled to feature in the second of the Marvel Spotlight series, which is meant to offer viewers shows they do not need to have seen prior MCU releases for, this is especially true. Given Echo, the former Spotlight show, managed to become Marvel's most-watched show of 2024, Wonder Man has a high standard set for it, hence its record-breaking setup is all the more important.
Though Wonder Man will be the first live-action TV show Marvel Studios creates with ten episodes, one previous animation series already surpassed this mark. Though this was in many respects broken into some shorter arcs, Marvel Animation's X-Men '97, a resurrection of 1992's X-Men: The Animated Series, saw the X-Men team combat a variety of adversaries and handle their interpersonal difficulties over the course of 10 episodes. Currently under development, X-Men '97 season 2 and 3 are expected to carry on this trend.
Since every season of the MCU multiverse series consists of nine episodes, What If...? used to almost equal this record for Marvel's animated productions. Though X-Men '97 might have already established the record for most episodes, the show is animated and not really connected to the MCU's primary chronology. Wonder Man will also highlight one of Marvel Studios' most recent innovations; it is the first live-action MCU series with 10 episodes, which could indicate lengthier seasons being made in the MCU's future.
Marvel Studios' Wonder Man presents the MCU's titular Avengers hero on Disney+ as a limited series. Wonder Man stars Ben Kingsley, reprising his Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi role as the eccentric thespian Trevor Slattery, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, the actor turned superhero.
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