On the finish of the Marvel Animation presentation at D23, Marvel Studios shared some new footage from its upcoming What If…? spinoff collection Marvel Zombies, and this present appears to be like like a blast!
In the course of the presentation, Marvel Animation’s Bryan Andrews confirmed that Marvel Zombies will probably be slapped with a “hardcore” TV-MA ranking, and he mentioned that it’s going to even be a four-episode “occasion collection.”
The footage that was screened revealed that Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi and Awkwafina’s Katy are the principle characters in one of many tales within the collection.
The primary clip we watched incorporates a metropolis overrun with Zombies and Shang Chi and Katy are in the midst of battling them and there’s a squad of helicopters flying by way of the sky blowing the zombies away.
Shang-Chi’s father is in one of many choppers and he jumps out to assist combat off the zombies utilizing the ability of the Ten Rings. In the course of the Battle Chang-Chi is bitten within the arm by a zombie.
As he begins to show right into a zombie and the rot is shifting up his arm, his father saves him by transferring the Ten Rings over to him. The rings go up Shang-Chi’s arm and so they lock off the an infection from spreading any additional, however his arm stays rotting.
Along with his father left with no safety from the Ten Rings, he’s killed and Shang-Chi and Katy escape on one of many helicopters.
The second clip is about 5 years after that occasion and the world is now a Mad Max-style wasteland! There’s a gaggle of individuals driving round in these Mad-Max fashion automobiles and Shang-Chi, together with his rtted arm, and Katy are in one in all them.
As they’re racing by way of the desert wasteland, and motorbike gang of Krees comes driving for them, and that is the beginning of an superior highway rage battle.
I loved the footage that was screened and the collection appears to be like prefer it might be a blast to look at! We’re truly going to get a correct Marvel Zombies story delivered to life and that’s fairly thrilling!
The collection takes place in an alternate actuality and reimagines the Marvel Universe as a brand new technology of heroes battling towards an ever-spreading zombie scourge.
The Marvels star Iman Vellani has confirmed that she will probably be reprising her function as Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, within the collection, and her character will probably be on the coronary heart of the present.
Vellani mentioned: “We’ve performed the entire thing. It was superb. It was a lot enjoyable. And I really like—there are numerous cool characters within the Marvel Zombies present. And Kamala is form of the middle of the present.”
Vellani additionally referenced The Lord of the Rings whereas speaking in regards to the collection to elucidate Kamala’s function, saying, “They described it to me, it’s like, ‘She’s principally the Frodo of the story.’ And I used to be like, ‘That’s superb.’”
There’s nonetheless no phrase on when the collection will probably be launched.
