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Marvel has landed another series on ABC: The Inhumans.
The comic book studio — which previously abandoned plans for an Inhumans feature film — is now set to team with ABC Studios for an eight-episode live-action drama series slated to premiere in the fall of 2017.
Few details are known about the project, including its producers, cast and premise. The first two episodes of the series will debut in Imax theaters for two weeks in early September 2017 before moving to ABC, where they will be followed by six subsequent new episodes.
Sources note that this is not the planned Inhumans feature film, which was initially set for July 2019 but pulled from the schedule. It also is not a spinoff of Marvel drama Agents of SHIELD, which has spent a good deal of time exploring a storyline about its Inhumans.
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The Inhumans, a race of superhumans with diverse and singularly unique powers, were first introduced in Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965. Since then, they have become among the most popular characters in the Marvel Universe.
ABC’s The Inhumans will explore the never-before-told epic adventure of Black Bolt and the royal family.
For ABC, this marks the latest Marvel drama to join the network’s schedule. ABC last season canceled Agent Carter after two seasons and passed on a spinoff of Agents of SHIELD. Marvel, meanwhile, is teaming with Hulu on another comic book-based series that is in development and has a full slate of dramas at Netflix as well as upcoming X-Men spinoff Legion at FX, among other projects.
Aaron Couch contributed to this report.
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