Marvel's New Warriors may not have become a full television series, but a key Squirrel Girl prop is in safe hands.
In a post to social media, New Warriors creator/writer/co-executive producer Kevin Biegel shared a photo of himself sporting a t-shirt featuring the members of the Marvel show's eponymous team. Additionally, he posted a photo featuring one of his daughters wearing Squirrel Girl's signature squirrel ears. "Wear your friends, even when they're gone," Biegel wrote. "And of course our daughters wear the Squirrel Girl ears from the pilot."
Produced in 2017, the New Warriors television pilot was based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz. In it, Milana Vayntrub starred as Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl -- a character she went on to voice as part of the animated Marvel Rising franchise. Vayntrub was joined on the New Warriors pilot by Derek Theler as Craig Hollis/Mister Immortal, Jeremy Tardy as Dwayne Taylor/Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy as Robbie Baldwin/Speedball, Matthew Moy as Zach Smith/Microbe and Kate Comer as Deborah Fields/Debrii. Additionally, Community alum Keith David guest starred as Ernest Vigman.
Produced by ABC Signature Studios and Marvel Television, New Warriors was originally slated to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe's lineup of small screen offerings like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Runaways and Daredevil. Marvel Television developed the project in 2016, with Freeform -- home of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger -- giving New Warriors a 10-episode series order in 2017. The pilot was produced by the end of that year.
However, while New Warriors was slated to premiere on Freeform in 2018, that ultimately never came to pass, as the network no longer had room in its schedule. Marvel Television then began shopping the show to other Disney-owned networks, to no avail, with the project being shelved by the fall of 2019 and the pilot remaining unaired.
In addition to introducing the New Warriors themselves, Biegel's series had a multi-season plan to turn Keith David's character into the classic Marvel villain M.O.D.O.K., which would have brought the character into the MCU. Interestingly, Joran Blum -- co-creator of the upcoming animated series Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. -- replied to Biegel's tweet, saying that he was "constantly" trying to get Marvel to let him watch the New Warriors pilot. Starring Patton Oswalt as the eponymous villain, M.O.D.O.K. is slated to premiere on Hulu on May 21.
Source: Twitter\@kbiegel
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