We've been hearings whispers that Marvel Studios is currently working on more animated series in addition to What If...?, and we now have confirmation that more animated MCU adventures are indeed on the way.
Executive Producer Brad Winderbaum tells Variety that there are "multiple" shows “in various phases of development” for Disney Plus streaming service, in addition to a second season of What If...? and a series of “photo-real” animated shorts centered on Baby Groot. There are no current plans for animated features, however.
Winderbaum didn't specify what any of these planned shows will focus on, but he did suggest that they won't simply be tie-ins or spinoff from established big-screen releases.
“We realized that there’s a lot of cool avenues you can explore with animation,” he said. “Any project that we create is going to be something that needs to be animated in order for the story to be told. There’s very little desire to take a piece of IP that’s popular because we’re coming out with a movie and just make an animated show about it. We’re not going to do that.”
Winterbaum estimates that about 85% of MCU actors returned to voice their respective characters in What If...?, but claims everyone was asked. GOTG star Dave Bautista would disagree (see his recent Tweet below).
“I saw that, too,” Winderbaum says. “It’s my understanding that everybody was asked in some way, shape or form, either through their agents or directly. I don’t know really what happened behind the scenes there, but certainly, we would have loved for him to be in the show. So there’s probably some miscommunication somewhere.”
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