MARVEL Teams Up With Academy Award Winner John Ridley For Mysterious TV Series
Another potential Marvel television series may be in development! It has been revealed that Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) has closed a deal with Marvel to help adapt a new superhero property! Come check it out!
Entertainment Weekly has learned that Marvel Studios has closed a deal with Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) for a mysterious new television series. Details on which character he'll be helping to adapt are scarce, but rumor has it that the top secret deal involves the reinvention of an existing Marvel superhero property for the Disney-owned ABC.
The report suggests that this will be an entirely different project, and not the rumored Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off, although considering the lack of details, there is a small possibility that they are one in the same. If it is an entirely new project, this would mark the ninth television series Marvel has put into production in the last three years following Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, Agent Carter, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the yet-to-be titled AOS spin-off series.
Currently, Ridley serves as the creator/showrunner/producer of the critically acclaimed crime drama American Crime, which coincidentally also airs on ABC and is expected to receive a second season. He is also slated as one of the writers on Paramount's upcoming Ben-Hur remake.
What do you guys think of this new partnership? Ridley's definitely a talent, so it's certainly a huge get for Marvel, but the bigger question is: which property could Marvel be looking to adapt, or reimagine, next? It's easy to look at characters like Spider-Man, Black Widow, and/or Hawkeye receiving a television treatment, but with their box office potentials, don't expect any of Marvel's current movie stars jumping down to the small-screen. So who else would Marvel want to reimagine? Cloak And Dagger? Moon Knight? The Punisher? Elektra? Ghost Rider? Blade? Mockingbird? Falcon? War Machine? Winter Soldier? She-Hulk? Some, possibly all, of those characters would probably be better suited for a Netflix series and/or a movie, but who do you guys think it could be? Sound off with your thoughts below!