Marvel And ABC Plotting A New "JESSICA JONES-Esque" Female Led Series; NEW WARRIORS Will Be A Comedy

Marvel And ABC Plotting A New "JESSICA JONES-Esque" Female Led Series; NEW WARRIORS Will Be A Comedy

Marvel Television SVP of Original Programming, Karim Zreik, has revealed that a new female-led series is on the way to ABC and confirms that New Warriors will be a comedy while taking a swipe at Powerless.

By JoshWilding - Aug 24, 2017 06:08 AM EST
Filed Under: New Warriors
Source: Deadline
Agent Carter may have been cancelled after two seasons and that Mockingbird series didn't go anywhere but Jessica Jones has been a big hit for Marvel and Netflix. It probably won't surprise you to learn that between the success of that and the Wonder Woman movie, ABC is now mulling over "more female-skewed shows" according to Marvel Television SVP of Original Programming, Karim Zreik. 

In fact, he's confirmed that something is in fact in development at ABC right now and while he was reluctant to divulge too many details, he did say that it will be a "Jessica Jones-
esque" project.

It's hard to say for sure what that could mean but a character like Jessica Drew (a.k.a. Spider-Woman) would be well-suited to a series like this; it just depends whether or not Marvel owns the hero! 

Zreik also addressed New Warriors, Marvel TV's first comedy. That's been ordered to series by Freeform and he explained why they're now moving into the genre and made something of a dig at DC's cancelled office comedy series Powerless. "It took us time to dip a foot into comedy because it has to be right. Marvel is never going to do an office comedy, you don’t need that." Thoughts?
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ODanil
ODanil - 8/24/2017, 6:12 AM
fatigue here we go.
ElVengador
ElVengador - 8/24/2017, 6:14 AM
I (sadly) don't think it will be Spider-Woman, due to the rights situation with Sony. I'd love to see Jessica Drew in the MCU, but that won't happen anytime soon.
TheFox
TheFox - 8/24/2017, 5:42 PM
@ElVengador - I've been crowing to see Jessica Drew pop up in Agents of SHIELD for YEARS now... but with Hydra now ostensibly dead, I kinda feel like the time is past for that.

Frankly, I'll take a live-action Spider-Woman however I can GET her at this point.

Z
SuperbatSpider1003
SuperbatSpider1003 - 8/24/2017, 6:15 AM
I find it funny how abc wanted to do Jessica Jones in 2008 but passed on it. Now they want to do something like it?
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 8/24/2017, 6:18 AM
Wait was that a shot at Powerless? lmao
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 8/24/2017, 6:45 AM
@Ha1frican - exactly what I thought
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