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As revealed by Deadline this morning, Disney has employed What If? head author Matthew Chauncey as its new co-showrunner of X-Males ’97, alongside collection director Jake Castorena. Unique collection producers Larry Houston, Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald will even stay on the collection as “consulting producers.”
The outlet moreover notes scripts for the upcoming second season of X-Males ’97 have been flippantly “revised” in mild of authentic showrunner Beau DeMayo’s controversial departure, and are at the moment in manufacturing. A 3rd season of the present can also be now formally in improvement at Disney+. It was beforehand revealed throughout DeMayo’s abrupt exit from the collection that season 2 had largely already been deliberate out and finalized, with tough concepts for a possible third season in early informal dialogue. How a lot Chauncey will use these concepts, as early as they had been, stays to be seen.
Along with What If?, Chauncey’s earlier movie credit embrace the streamer’s Ms. Marvel collection–by which he labored as a consulting producer–and Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder as a script physician. Chauncey additionally labored within the author’s room of Guillermo del Toro’s short-lived Netflix animated collection, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, starring She-Hulk‘s Tatiana Maslany.
A launch date for the second season of X-Males ’97 has but to be set.
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