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A flurry of reports point to Marvel secretly mounting a new live-action Disney+ series, potentially featuring characters from the Young Avengers or New Mutants.
Last month, Murphy’s Multiverse spotted that a fresh Marvel production company, Veil Productions, had been set up for a TV project. Now, there’s also word on its production codename: “Slumber Party.”
Marvel typically sets up a production company for each of its major projects, and these can be named something referencing the project itself. (Marvel’s recent “Throttle Productions” is believed to be the team behind Ryan Gosling’s upcoming Ghost Rider, for example.) So too with its production codenames, though these can also be deliberately obtuse.
So, what could Veil refer to? In the Marvel comics, Veil was a young member of the Avengers Academy, and Slumber Party certainly points to a youthful setting. It’s also the title of New Mutants #21, which introduced Warlock.
Marvel has been considering a standalone Young Avengers project for years, it is widely understood, with teases in several other MCU projects and an array of characters it could now include. Iman Vellani’s excellent Ms. Marvel was last seen trying to form a team with Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop, with Kathryn Newton’s Cassie Lang also in their sights to recruit.
Beyond these, it’s been years now since we checked in with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’s America Chavez and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Patriot. There’s also Ironheart’s Riri Williams, plus Agatha and Vision Quest’s Maximoff twins. Even Hulk has a son now, too.
When might we hear more? Marvel will hold a dedicated “Up Next From Marvel Television and Marvel Animation” panel at New York Comic-Con on October 8, which seems like a great time to make some form of announcement. Expect more detail on Vision Quest and Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 at the same time.
Any new Disney+ live-action series confirmation would be notable at this point, following the noticable slowdown in new Marvel (and Star Wars) live-action series getting the greenlight. After years of pumping out projects that left fans feeling like the studio was focused on quantity rather than quality (Secret Invasion, looking at you), Disney appears to have reigned in its balance sheet, while Marvel looks to be applying more quality control.
The timing for a Young Avengers project would also seem to make sense, perhaps focusing on the characters during or directly preceding the events of Avengers: Doomsday, making for a intriguing setup to Avengers: Secret Wars.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Noah Jupe had joined the cast of Avengers: Secret Wars in a hush-hush role that fans already believed they have sussed out.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky@tomphillipseg.bsky.social
