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Marvel Zombies "Full TV-MA"; Based on "What If…?" Ep, Not Comics

Director & EP Bryan Andrews says Marvel Zombies will be "full TV-MA" and build off of the "What If...?" Season 1 episode and not the comics.

It was back during San Diego Comic-Con 2022 when MCU fans were treated to an update on where things stood with Marvel Studios & Disney+'s Marvel Zombies that included confirmation that it would be receiving a TV-MA rating. In addition, the SDCC presentation also included looks at zombie versions of Ghost, Abomination, Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Okoye, and Captain America. On the not-quite-so-dead side, there were looks at Jimmy Woo, Kate Bishop, Yelena, Shang Chi, and Ms. Marvel. A little over a year later, Iman Vellani (The Marvels, Ms. Marvel), aka Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel – confirmed that she had wrapped recording her lines (more on that below). For this go-around, director & EP Bryan Andrews spoke with Phase Zero to tease how the animated series is earning that rating while also establishing that it will branch off from the What If…? Season 1 episode "What If… Zombies?!" and not the comics.

"That's going to be crazy. Yeah, [it's] full TV-MA," Andrews shared, making it clear that the animated series will be making the most of that rating. As for the series itself, while it's inspired by the comics universe, Andrews confirms that Marvel Zombies will build upon the universe created during the first season of the MCU anthology series. "It's spawning off of what was done on Episode [105]. The notion was, there's some inspiration from the comic, the fact that they're zombies, but we're not doing the comic, like, in any stretch. We have our own take on it, and a lot of that stuff has been set up by our talented [What If…?] writers early on, so, just taking that and… exploring that mythology in that episode a bit more. So, yeah, it's crazy,"

"We've done the whole thing. It was amazing. It was so much fun," Vellani shared during an interview with The Direct from November 2023, confirming that she's wrapped recording on the season. Vellani added, "And I love – there are a lot of cool characters in the 'Marvel Zombies' show. And Kamala is kind of the center of the show. They described it to me, it's like, 'She's basically the Frodo of the story.' And I was like, 'That's amazing,'" And being in "the center of the show" means that Kamala will be running into "some really cool people" along the way. "I get to interact and meet all these people along her journey. And, yes, they're only the voices, and I don't get to hear their voices in real time. But just, it's my fantasies, right? Like, knowing Kamala is going to interact with some really cool people, even if it's just animation, is so special in a lot of ways."

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