'Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur' Roars To February Season 2 Premiere
Black History Month 2024 will have substance to it on Disney Channel
Marvel Animation may have just shown off its 2024 slate at a What If…? season 2 premiere event as Marvel Studios prepares for a lighter theatrical slate with only Deadpool 3 in tow, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more Disney-made Marvel content. And not just Spidey and His Amazing Friends. Disney has set a February premiere for Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur from Disney Television Animation.
The second season of the Emmy-nominated series will premiere on Friday, February 2 on both Disney Channel and Disney XD. It and several subsequent episodes will make up the first batch of episodes that will go up on Disney+ the next day, February 3. This brings it to the equivalent week before the series premiered in this year, with a 16-episode first season that ran linearly until May. 13-year-old super-genius Moon Girl aka Lunella Lafayette, voiced by Diamond White and her 10-ton tyrannosaurus Devil Dinosaur, voiced by Fred Tatasciore, set out to protect her Lower East Side community from super threats. In season 2, they’re very much settled into their superheroing, but it’s starting to have compatibility issues with her personal life, and thus the quandaries over secret identities will hit her for the first time.
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur will be packed with guest stars in season 2, owing to its longer season length. In addition to the previously announced Edward James Olmos (known for the Blade Runner films and the Battlestar Galactica reimagining) as Molecule Man, there’s Jonathan Banks, SungWon Cho (better known as ProZD on YouTube), Cynthia Erivo, Giancarlo Esposito, Andy Garcia, Arsenio Hall, Ann Harada, Jackée Harry, Manny Jacinto, Carol Kane, Blue Beetle’s Xolo Maridueña, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’s Alex Newell, Lost in Space’s Parker Posey, Ephraim Sykes, the recently-re-departed from Doctor Who David Tennant, Robin Thede, and Peter Weller.
The supporting cast includes Alfre Woodard as Lunella’s grandmother, Mimi; Sasheer Zamata as Lunella’s mother, Adria; Jermaine Fowler as her father, James Jr., Libe Barer as her manager best friend, Casey, and Gary Anthony Williams as her grandfather, Pops. Series executive producer Laurence Fishburne recurs as The Beyonder. Amongst the show’s various other producers is Steve Loter, who worked on Kim Possible and American Dragon: Jake Long.
