Tatiana Maslany Casts Amusing Doubt On 'She-Hulk' Season 2
Don’t hulk out, hopefully she’ll be graduating to the movies soon enough
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law star Tatiana Maslany has some suspicions about why the Marvel Studios Disney+ series hasn’t been renewed for a second season and why there probably won’t be one.
In an appearance on the Twitch series Codenames LIVE! — The New Class, Maslany believed “I don’t think so. I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, ‘No thanks,'”. Obviously there was no official word from Disney, but since She-Hulk was a marketed miniseries, the company didn’t need to call to say they weren’t being picked up because it was “complete”.
In it, Maslany played Jennifer Walters, who gains her cousin Bruce Banner’s Hulk mutation through an open wound after a road accident, and thus must balance being the green 6-foot-7-inch She-Hulk as a single woman and an attorney who specializes in superhuman-oriented legal cases. Running nine episodes from August to October 2022, returning characters included Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk, Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/Abomination, Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Benedict Wong as Wong. The series also featured Jameela Jamil as social media influencer Mary MacPherran / Titania, Josh Segarra as co-worker Pug Pugliese, Ginger Gonzaga as best friend Nikki Ramos, Jon Bass as Intelligencia forum founder Todd “HulkKing” Phelps and Renée Elise Goldsberry as Mallory Book.
With Marvel Studios overhauling the production structure of how they do television series, it’s possible they’re not interested in retrofitting such to the television series that came before. Plus they were always intended to be launching pads to bring these newly-introduced Marvel Cinematic Universe characters to the movies. She-Hulk also isn’t the only unaccounted-for realm (as in her own inner circle of characters) introduced in Phase 4 that hasn’t gotten proper follow-up in any fashion, the others being Moon Knight and Werewolf by Night. They’re right alongside the Eternals as having unannounced and uncertain paths forward.
Jessica Gao served as head writer on She-Hulk, with Kat Coiro and Ana Valia directing several episodes. Coiro and Gao served as executive producers alongside the usual suspects from Marvel Studios, namely Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and Brad Winderbaum.
Gao has previously talked about the kind of wrap-up that the finale brought, saying “I’ve been writing for TV for a very long time, and you can never, ever guarantee that you’re gonna get another season, especially for a Season 1 show. So, the prudent thing for a writer working on a season one show is to tell a satisfying and complete story so that if it did end that way, you felt like you at least told one full story but still left the door open for, you know, six seasons and a movie.”
Source: Deadline