It's official: Marvel's Most Wanted, a spinoff of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD focused on Bobbi Morse (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood), is going to pilot at ABC.
ABC President Paul Lee announced at the 2016 winter Television Critics Association press tour, "We're absolutely doing that one. I just announced that we're going to pilot on Marvel's Most Wanted, which is a spinoff."
He spoke highly about the project, which he said will go into production in the near future. "We love the script," he said. "We think it's going to be great. We're doing that in the next few months."
Agents of SHIELD producers Jeff Bell and Paul Zbyszewski co-created the project for Marvel and ABC Studios and co-wrote the pilot. They’ll also be showrunners and executive-producers. Marvel’s head of television Jeph Loeb will also exec-produce. ABC initially decided not to move forward on the series in May 2015.
Lee also took the opportunity to tout the upcoming second season of Marvel's Agent Carter, and the Netflix Marvel series. "We feel very good about our Marvel franchises," he said.
When asked to offer updates on John Ridley's Marvel project and Damage Control, Lee hedged, simply saying, "We have two Marvel shows obviously being Agent Carter and obviously being SHIELD, and we have one in development, which we're making a pilot of."
He also spoke confidently about Agents of SHIELD and its opportunity for renewal, saying, "I can't speak to what happens beyond May, but I'm feeling good about SHIELD."
Marvel's Agent Carter premieres on January 21.
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