‘Marvel Zombies’ Season 2 Not Guaranteed, But Co-Creator Promises No Future Links To Original Comics
While word remains out on a second season of Marvel Zombies, its co-creators, Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum and showrunner Bryan Andrews, already have some ideas as to where they’d like to take the Disney Plus animated series – and unfortunately, none of them include a single element from the original comics.
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This peek into the undead series’ potential future was provided by Winderbaum during a recent, post-premiere interview given to ComicBook.com, therein explaining that while he and Andrews were still waiting for the official green light from Disney, they already had some plans for its future:
“Please, like, people have got to subscribe to Disney+ and watch this show. If that happens, they will get more. And we are excited. We’re ready.”
To this end, Winderbaum further clarified that although they had a bevy of comic books from which to source potential storylines, he and Andrews had no interest whatsoever in doing so, as they instead intended for Marvel Zombies to exist as its own unique product:
“We had a lot of freedom, you know, in development in terms of characters we could use or where we wanted to explore. But there were certain lore considerations
“What Robert [Kirkman] and Sean [Phillips] did in that original book [Marvel Zombies Vol. 1], it kind of branched off from what Mark Millar was doing. It was just a different time in the comics, a different universe.
“We were branching off of the MCU version of the 616. The pieces on the board were in different places for us to start the story. That lore is very rich and expansive, and Brian and I nerd out all the time about other characters and other things that are happening in the universe at the same time, and where we would explore if we were so lucky to make a second season.”
Notably, Winderbaum’s latest comments provide a concrete confirmation of the Disney Plus series’ intent to divorce from the original comics, as though he and Andrews had previously confirmed Marvel Zombies‘ first season would feature zero references or homages to the comics, the latter said they were not completely averse to including them in future outings.
Asked by The Nerdist‘s Eric Diaz if there had been “any moments from the comic you definitely wanted to replicate on screen” in the show’s debut, the showrunner affirmed, “Not so much in this iteration of it.”
“There were a few things that we did as a nod to the comics back in the first season of What If…? But once we had done that, then it’s like, ‘OK, all bets are off.’ On this one, we just went for it.
“So, if we get a chance to ever do another round of Marvel Zombies? Then you never know what stuff we might homage and borrow from the comics. Just to acknowledge them. But this one pretty much seems to be its own thing, which is still cool.”
