'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Is Pre-Enrolled For A Third Year
Disney+ is officially parked for Spider-Man’s animated future
San Diego Comic-Con 2022 was for the longest time the best look we got at what was Spider-Man: Freshman Year, where it was announced at Marvel Studios's animation panel that the show was getting a second season, titled Spider-Man: Sophomore Year. The show evolved over the next year plus to escape the shackles of confinement to singular school years to become Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, finally premiering this Wednesday, January 29 on Disney+. Its bizarre first season rollout may very well be due in part to its secure future, and in the days leading up to the premiere, the breadth of its security is revealed to be wider.
Speaking with The Movie Podcast, Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios's Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation, first gushed about how much he loves the characters, elevated by what he’s already read from the entirety of season 2, saying “I've fallen so head over heels in love with these characters. I've now read all the scripts for Season 2, we’re halfway through the animatics. What Jeff is building brick by brick in this show starts to pay off. You feel it in Season 1, you grow connected to these characters so that when everything’s supposed 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 in my soul, and it just gets deeper and deeper in subsequent seasons." It’s such a deep exhilaration he’s feeling that he’s revealed Your Friendly Neighborhood has already been renewed for a third season, soon to hear pitches for it by showrunner and head writer Jeff Trammell soon. As he put it "We’re also greenlit for through Season 3, and in a couple weeks, I’m gonna hear his pitch for the third season of the show, and I’m like a fan, I can't wait."
So far, Marvel Studios’s television output has seen more long-term planning from its animation side than its live action, with only Loki being prepared with two six episode seasons, while Daredevil: Born Again had an 18-episode order split into two nines after some production overhauls. Miniseries have been prevalent, though there are also several series with question marks over their future. On the animation hand, What If…? recently wrapped a 3-season 26-episode run in December while X-Men ‘97 is in production on its third season, first under new head writer Matthew Chauncey, while its second season isn’t expected to premiere until next year.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s logline describes Peter, here voiced by Hudson Thames, as “on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we’ve ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots”. Mel Zwyer is supervising director. The other executive producers aside from Winderbaum are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt. The series also features Zeno Robinson as Harry Osborn, Colman Domingo as his father Norman Osborn, Eugene Byrd as Lonnie Lincoln, Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius aka Doctor Octopus, and Paul F. Tompkins as Bentley Wittman aka The Wizard. Chameleon, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, and Butane will also somehow fit into this ten-episode season. But hey we’ll see how many are around over however many episodes come after. January 29 sees two episodes, February 5 and 12 are ready to have three episodes released, so the season will wrap up on February 19 with the final two episodes.
Source: The Movie Podcast