D23 Expo 2019: Marvel Announces Animated Series, SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS
August 23, 2019Peter Parker (Spider-Man) has enlisted Miles Morales and Ghost-Spider to help protect the neighborhood in a new series, Spidey and His Amazing Friends, which will land on Disney Junior in 2021.
The series will tell the story of teamwork, working well with others to achieve squad goals, while centering on Parker, as he recruits friends to help him defeat evil. It will mark the first-ever full-length preschool animated series from Marvel for Disney Junior and will also see a plethora of guest appearances, like Hulk and Black Panther.
“Everyone at Marvel is thrilled to launch our first preschool series on Disney Junior, the gold standard platform for the audience,” Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment Senior Vice President Cort Lane said. “We believe parents and kids will be excited about these stories filled with themes of friendship, cooperation, solving problems and using your abilities to help others.”
Marvel will roll out a laundry list of producers, creators and editors to work on the show in: Lane, Alan Fine, Joe Quesada, Dan Buckley, Eric Radomski, Marsha Griffin, Harrison Wilcox, Alfred Gimeno and Ashley Mendoza.
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