Marvel’s great-looking animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has already been renewed for Season 3. The renewal comes before Season 1 has even premiered.
Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation, said in a new interview with The Movie Podcast: “I’ve now read all the scripts for season 2, we’re halfway through the animatics.”
He added: “Jeff [Trammell, head writer] is building brick by brick and this show starts to pay off, you feel that in season 1, you grow connected to these characters, so that when everything starts to lock into place and pay off by the end of the season – I don’t know about you guys, but I feel it really deeply in my soul.”
He then shares: “And it just gets deeper and deeper in subsequent seasons. We’re greenlit for through season 3, so in a couple weeks I’m going to hear his pitch for the third season.”
This is pretty cool! It means that Marvel and Disney love what they’ve seen from the series and they think they have a hit on their hands. The show has been met with great revews.
The series follows Peter Parker and his journey to becoming Spider-Man in the MCU. It’s set in an alternate timeline, where the webslinger’s origin story features a mentorship by Norman Osborn (of Oscorp fame), the alter ego to bitter enemy Green Goblin, instead of Tony Stark.
Marvel’s Head of Animation, Brad Winderbaum, previously talked about the series, saying: “I mean, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is amazing, to say the least. I think it’s really going to surprise people. It is very much like a cut from that Steve Ditko era of the comics.”
He went on to explain: “It’s Peter Parker back in high school just trying to make it work, take care of his aunt, completely broke, and having to be a superhero.
“It’s so essentially Spider-Man, and what Jeff Trammell, the creator of that show, did, which I think people are going to love, is he built this ensemble of characters around Peter that you fall in love with.”
He added: “Similarly, just because it’s long-form storytelling, as those relationships brew when the stakes rise in that first season, things feel really tragic and dangerous, and pretty incredible. So, I love that show.”
Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker in the new series and he’s joined by Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius, while Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio reprise their roles as Matt Murdock, AKA Daredevil, and Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premieres on Disney+ on January 29th.
