- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man‘s producers have revealed why its launch was delayed
- The Marvel present’s launch wasn’t impacted by the pandemic or 2023 Hollywood strikes
- Work was accomplished in mid-2024, so we have needed to wait seven months for it
Two of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man‘s (YFNSM) producers have defined why it wasn’t launched before it ought to’ve been.
Brad Winderbaum and Jeff Trammell, the latter of whom can be YFNSM‘s showrunner and head author, advised TechRadar that there have been two massive causes for the present’s delayed launch. Strangely, it had nothing to do with the pandemic or the 2023 Hollywood strikes, despite the fact that the latter was the chief trigger for a number of Marvel film delays and a a lot quieter 2024 for Marvel Studios on the Disney Plus entrance.
So, contemplating Winderbaum – Marvel’s head of TV, streaming, and animation – advised me that the Marvel Phase 5 present was “accomplished final summer season” (that’ll be mid-2024, for anybody questioning), what was the maintain up? As it occurs, including some closing polish to the general collection and, much more curiously, points from a distribution perspective.
“We introduced it fairly shortly after we greenlit its improvement,” Winderbaum advised me about Spider-Man’s newest animated journey. “We began displaying followers among the artwork at Comic-Con [in July 2021], so we have been engaged on it proper round then.
“The improvement timeline was round three years and we really accomplished it final summer season,” he added. “So, we have been ready with bated breath for the world to see it. The solely actual delay was on the distribution aspect. You know, launch schedules and topic to a whole lot of totally different forces on the earth, in order that they’re liable to shift and alter.”
It wasn’t simply the scheduling patterns that deviated from their unique goal. YFNSM was initially designed to be a present that was canon within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), one that might’ve acted as a prequel to the Tom Holland-starring Spider-Man films which can be additionally set in Marvel’s cinematic juggernaut. However, as Winderbaum defined on a December 2024 version of the Phase Hero Podcast, the comedian e book big pivoted away from that plan when, as Windderbaum put it, “we’d’ve needed to put so many limiters on our story to get it to lock into canon”.
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Even with its semi-creative overhaul, YFNSM was able to make its debut on one of many world’s greatest streaming providers seven months in the past. Given the dearth of Marvel content material final yr, it might’ve made sense to launch it on Disney’s major streamer in 2024, then. Regardless, Trammell is not complaining in regards to the extra improvement time that was afforded to the present’s crew.
“It took the time that it took,” he advised me with a smile. “There have been sure components of it the place we thought ‘we are able to push this even additional and make it higher’, and we have been allowed the time to do this by Marvel, which was nice.
“Everyone needs to ship the very best model attainable,” Trammell continued, “And I feel we have been ready to do this as a result of Marvel was so supportive, and gave us extra time to iron issues out or work on one thing that wasn’t on the required degree. It’s nice to have the possibility to do this as a result of I’ve labored on different exhibits the place that wasn’t the case and we have been compelled to hit particular deadlines. Marvel knew this was an vital collection, in order that they wished us to get it proper.”
Depending on who you ask, YFNSM might’ve used extra time to make it pretty much as good as attainable. Indeed, Trammell has already needed to defend its animation model after some followers criticised the way it regarded, so some folks could not agree along with his sentiments. Anyway, you possibly can see what I considered YFNSM and whether or not it deserves a spot in our greatest Disney Plus exhibits information, when my assessment goes reside tomorrow (January 29).
