Marvel Zombies was one of several animated TV shows announced by Marvel Studios at last year's San Diego Comic-Con, but we haven't received any additional details since. The What If...? spin-off is still happening, though, and Iman Vellani recently shared an update on the project.
Talking to The Direct, The Marvels star confirmed she's already recorded her lines as this post-apocalyptic Variant of the mutant.
"We’ve done the whole thing. It was amazing. It was so much fun," Vellani confirms. "And I love...there are a lot of cool characters in the 'Marvel Zombies' show. And Kamala is kind of the center of the show. They described it to me, it's like, 'She's basically the Frodo of the story.' And I was like, 'That's amazing.'"
Artwork shown off last year depicted Ms. Marvel alongside Shang-Chi, Jimmy Woo, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Yelena Belova, Death Dealer, Red Guardian, and Katy. We also saw zombified Variants of Ikaris, Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Abomination, Captain America, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), and Ghost.
Needless to say, Vellani is excited about sharing the screen with so many of the MCU's heavy hitters.
"I get to interact and meet all these people along her journey. And, yes, they're only the voices, and I don't get to hear their voices in real time. But just, it's my fantasies, right? Like, knowing Kamala is going to interact with some really cool people, even if it's just animation, is so special in a lot of ways."
The animated series reimagines the Marvel Universe as a new generation of heroes battle against an ever-spreading zombie scourge.
However, instead of continuing the story that ended in "What If... Zombies?!", Marvel Zombies is believed to be showing the same events from that episode, albeit from the perspective of a new group of survivors (what that means for the big Thanos cliffhanger remains to be seen).
In the comic books, Marvel Zombies started as a five-issue limited series first published in 2005. The series was written by Robert Kirkman (who would later create The Walking Dead) with art by Sean Phillips and covers by Arthur Suydam.
The story was set in an alternate universe where the world's superhero population has been infected with a virus which turned them into zombies. The series was spun out of a story arc in the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four, where the zombie Reed Richards tricked his Ultimate counterpart into opening a portal to the zombie universe only for the latter to prevent the former from ever coming to his universe.
Marvel Zombies doesn't have a confirmed premiere date.