X-Men ’97 Taps What If? Head Writer as New Showrunner For Season 3

As revealed by Deadline this morning, Disney has hired What If? caput writer Matthew Chauncey arsenic its caller co-showrunner of X-Men ’97, alongside bid manager Jake Castorena. Original bid producers Larry Houston, Eric Lewald and Julia Lewald volition besides stay connected the bid arsenic “consulting producers.”

The outlet additionally notes scripts for the upcoming 2nd play of X-Men ’97 have been lightly “revised” successful airy of archetypal showrunner Beau DeMayo’s controversial departure, and are presently successful production. A 3rd play of the amusement is besides present officially successful improvement astatine Disney+. It was antecedently revealed during DeMayo’s abrupt exit from the bid that play 2 had mostly already been planned retired and finalized, with unsmooth ideas for a imaginable 3rd play successful aboriginal casual discussion. How overmuch Chauncey volition usage those ideas, arsenic aboriginal arsenic they were, remains to beryllium seen.

In summation to What If?, Chauncey’s erstwhile movie credits see the streamer’s Ms. Marvel series–in which helium worked arsenic a consulting producer–and Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder as a publication doctor. Chauncey besides worked successful the writer’s country of Guillermo del Toro’s short-lived Netflix animated series, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, starring She-Hulk‘s Tatiana Maslany.

A merchandise day for the 2nd play of X-Men ’97 has yet to beryllium set.

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