Marvel Zombies: The Gory Adventures Await on Disney+

Marvel Studios finally gives fans their first full glimpse into the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Marvel Zombies - and it absolutely deserves its mature rating. A TV-MA rated preview of the upcoming Marvel Zombies series made its way online today courtesy of the official Marvel Studios social media account. The blood-soaked trailer showcases countless undead ghouls, many of whom wield the same awesome superpowers that they did in life, with only a handful of heroes left to fight back against the flesh-eating hordes that have overrun their world. Readers can see the trailer for themselves down below.

The first incarnation of the now iconic Marvel Zombies made their comic book debut back in the pages of 2005's Ultimate Fantastic Four #21 by writer Mark Millar and artist Greg Land. At the time, the Reed Richards of the original Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610) believed he had made contact with a benevolent version of himself from across the Multiverse. In the hopes of making greater discoveries and embarking on bigger adventures than ever before, the Ultimate Reed unwittingly helped unleash an entire Marvel Universe's worth of undying, cannibalistic versions of classic Marvel Comics characters.

During the first season of Marvel Studios' What If...? in 2021, the Marvel Zombies made the leap to the small screen in the episode simply titled, 'What If... Zombies!' The episode saw a Multiversal variant of Hank Pym journey into the Quantum Realm in an effort to rescue his long-lost wife, Janet van Dyne, only to discover that she has become Patient Zero to a seemingly unstoppable zombie virus. Over the course of the episode, a ragtag team including Spider-Man, Black Panther, Scott Lang, Hulk, Sharon Carter, Hope van Dyne, and Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation fought tirelessly against zombified versions of characters ranging from Captain America to the Scarlet Witch, all in the hopes of finding a cure and turning the fate of their entire world around.

Marvel Zombies director Bryan Andrews discussed not just the sheer brutality on display in the four-part limited series, but also the impetus for highlighting such gruesome violence on the small screen in the first place. Andrews noted that the creative team approached the story and individual episodes while making a concerted effort to avoid being overtly 'gratuitous' when it came to the violence on screen. 'I think the rating comes from the level of violence and or intensity of the moments that the characters find themselves in. And yeah, blood gets spilled, and we want to be able to see that,' Andrews said. The director went on to explain that the reason for such intense scenes was 'not about providing just a tremendous amount of gore,' but rather about pushing the envelope in terms of the emotional weight in an otherwise ordinary animated superhero series. Marvel Zombies premieres on Disney+ on Sept. 24.

Source: CBR

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