The 2025 TV schedule has some sterling choices heading out to audiences within the months to return. One such effort goes to please Black Panther followers, because the upcoming Marvel spinoff collection Eyes of Wakanda will present us heroes’ adventures as they recuperate and defend stolen Wakandan know-how throughout eras of the distant previous. Oh, and apparently, a significant Marvel hero we’ve seen earlier than in live-action could also be getting an official MCU reboot.
Tied to this yr’s Annecy Animation Pageant, Selection had a dialog with the Disney+ collection’ creator/showrunner Todd Harris, who dug deeper into the upcoming anthology collection than he has earlier than. Set to debut on August fifth, Eyes of Wakanda is ready to be a real blast from the previous; which apparently has allowed Harris and his crew to work on this surprisingly Rand-y (or not) aspect:
There might be an Iron Fist in right here, and never the Iron Fist you anticipate.
Now there is a title I have never heard in years. In all equity, studying that exact quote made me do a double take. It was only some years in the past that Netflix had its personal live-action collection centered on Iron Fist; albeit with an incarnation of the Danny Rand variant of the character, performed by Finn Jones.
The collection was controversial and never as properly acquired by followers as its streaming siblings, one of many causes being that Iron Fist hardly ever used his titular powers. Oh, and naturally there was the transfer to solid what needs to be an Asian hero with a white actor.
Even with these problematic components, you’d assume that perhaps these in cost at Marvel Studios would use this Eyes of Wakanda spin-off to in some way convey that continuity again into the fold of the MCU correct. We’ve seen that already occur by way of the personal Disney+ subscription authentic Daredevil: Born Once more, and its latest plot twists.
Because the collection has now seen the inclusion of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Krysten Ritter’s return as Jessica Jones, you’d assume they’d wish to hold The Defenders collectively. Possibly Danny Rand was Blipped, and got here again with out his powers? Someway, I do not assume it will be so simple as that type of comic-friendly re-write.
The phrases “not the Iron Fist you’d anticipate” have me believing that Marvel Studios is lastly taking the earlier Iron Fist backlash to coronary heart and revamping the position. With Eyes of Wakanda taking nice care to remain true to the Wakandan tradition, and within the gentle of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Mandarin retcon, we may see the Marvel Multiverse lastly establishing an Asian actor to take the position again, which feels just like the logical factor to do.
After all, that’s simply me leaping a bit forward of the sport right here, because the Multiverse Saga remains to be shifting in methods mysterious to us all. In the interim, we’ll simply need to hold ready for Eyes of Wakanda to indicate us this new spin on an previous basic. So don’t overlook that this four-episode collection will begin airing, solely on Disney+, on August fifth.