"Marvel's Runaways" , A Hulu Original Series

Marvel's got another internet streaming show in production, but this time on Hulu and from the creators of Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage.

Source: http://deadline.com/2016/08/hulu-marvels-runaways-series-josh-schwartz-stephanie-savage-marvel-comics-1201799746/

This youth based group were long due some kind of television series, along with the Power Pack.

edited 26th Oct '17 7:28:18 PM by XMenMutant22

Oh wow, that seems cool and I like the streaming original Marve- "from the creators of Gossip Girl"

Nope.

edited 17th Aug '16 1:20:02 PM by Larkmarn

He's also the creator of Chuck.

The other creator of Chuck is working on Legends of Tomorrow.

So, it will be part of the MCU?

It's pretty cool. It's a group of characters who deserve a TV show. Though, honestly, I have yet to read Runaways. I'll get around to it at some point, but there's a lot I want to read. Still, I'm glad they're making the show.

Let's just hope they ensure the diversity is maintained. Nico needs to be Asian-American. Karolina needs to be a lesbian. Gert needs to be chubby. And producers, don't you fucking dare try to make Gert "hot." Make her chubby and geeky and cute.

I would've preferred the Young Avengers, personally. :)

But you've gotta think they're going to be relatively faithful to the comic, right? Especially the ending of the first story arc? That's what makes it interesting to me.

That's cool. I'm only familiar with the characters from Volume 1 of the comic which I read at the library one day.

No Hulu in Australia though so...

The Young Avengers require too much set up and cgi to really be done as a tv series.

A list of suggested castings for the series. I'm not familiar with most of the actors listed, but it still looks pretty good to me overall.

I definitely agree with Millie Bobby Brown as Molly Hayes. Brown was awesome in Stranger Things, although it would be weird to see her so joyful and happy after being the very quiet Ell.

I'm still hoping for Idris Elba as Old Lace.

It'll hopefully do a lot better than the PSN-exclusive Powers did.

"Hulu Original Series" is not a string of words that fills me with a great deal of hope.

edited 26th Aug '16 11:59:21 PM by Eagal

Hulu Original Programming includes: The Path, Difficult People, Casual, Eleven Twenty Two Sixty Three, the last two seasons of The Mindy Project and the last season of The Thick of It.

So yeah, Hulu has done some good original programming. Not as much as Netflix, but still good.

Ooh, plus they have two new projects coming out that look pretty awesome: Chance (with Hugh Laurie) and Shut Eye (with Jeffrey Donovan).

edited 27th Aug '16 12:13:25 AM by alliterator

And the only show on this list I at least heard about is the Mindy project. Not that this is saying much, those might good shows nevertheless...

Anyway, a property like this could do wonders for Hulu's reputation, if they knock it out of the ballpark.

11/22/63 was also a great show. I think it's kind of weird that Marvel would be willing to split the viewership between Netflix and Hulu though. All of their other shows are on Netflix.

It might be because Netflix is determined to only do two Marvel shows a year, so they don't have any room for Runaways.

Well, it is a win/win situation for Marvel, isn't it?

Seems so, especially since Disney owns a share of Hulu (because Disney must consume everything for the hive mind).

The other difference is that Netflix tends to drop entire seasons at one time, setting things up so that people can binge watch them. Hulu, on the other hand, goes more for a weekly format, where they real a new episode each week.

That's something that annoys me about Hulu. Netflix has kind of spoiled me in that regard.

Do we know yet if this is going to be some sort of limited-run miniseries, or an actual ongoing series with no set end date? Because I think the former would be very much ideal. The Runaways are, while a good concept, one that you can only do so much with before you start suffering from a sense of general aimlessness. That's what happened in the comics, after all - they defeated the Pride, completed their arc...then just kinda hung around doing stuff until the series petered out.

Jessica Jones had a similar issue in the comics, though not as pronounced. She's most remembered by her original run, afterwards while she kept apppearing in things and had memorable moments, she stil peaked at Alias and the character has never been able to surpass that.

And yet, we're gettin' a second season.

That's because she only had one run. There was only a single Alias come that went 28 issues. The next series she was in, The Pulse, was divided between her and Ben Urich working at the Daily Bugle. Then it went to back to her for the next storyline (which they used part of in Jessica Jones) and then that was the last storyline.

She's basically been a supporting or background character since then. She's finally getting her own series again called (of course) Jessica Jones.