At a recent summit for the show that included writers Joe Kelly, Steve Seagle, Joe Casey and Duncan Rouleau, along with Paul Dini, Brian Michael Bendis, Jeph Loeb, Joe Quesada, Stephen Wacker, Cort Lane and Harrison Wilcox, Marvel Television Development Associate Harrison Wilcox talked about the different way in which they're putting the show together. While most animated series' have a single story editor who works with the producers,
Ultimate Spider-Man will be doing things a lot differentely.
Because this is our Spider-Man show, and the first show that Marvel is producing itself, Jeph wanted to do things a little differently and have a writers' room meet together to break the story.
On The Plans For The First Season Of Ultimate Spider-Man:
The first summit was very much setting up who the characters were, the pilot that Paul wrote, and the overall arc for Peter, Spider-Man, the main cast and our main villains. So from the very beginning there was a plan on how the show started and how the season ended, and what happened along the way for our characters. In the room we have a whole board that lists every single episode and what is the general idea of each one, who’s in it, who’s maybe guest starring, that sort of thing. We can all see the whole season on the wall, and from there we decide what should happen when.
On How The Writers Work Together To Creat The Best Episodes Possible:
We all have the same role [at the summit]. It’s just [to] try and find the best story. Find out what story we want to tell, who’s going to be in [it], and just the best way to tell that story [while] inserting as much Spidey humor and action into it as possible as we go. Everyone doing this has the same goal.
On The Process Of Taking The Script From First Draft To Final Product:
Like the writers' room, it’s a group effort. [A script] comes to all the people who are in that room. It comes back to the whole group and we all give notes on the drafts as they come in. It’s everything from 'structurally it’s not quite working here,' to 'here’s a great action beat.' It’s all about making it stronger. The first draft’s always pretty good, but by the final production draft it’s a very tight machine just because of all the really talented people who have given their input.
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