Following yesterday’s “The Fantastic Four” casting news and breaking the internet, Marvel’s got even more today. Nostalgia is running really high at Marvel Studios at the moment, and arguably, it’s THE thing of the moment. You had nostalgia running to almost $2 billion at the box office with “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men, and “Deadpool & Wolverine” looks to provide the same thing for the 20th Century Fox era of Marvel superheroes. And there’s one more throwback nostalgic piece of content coming soon too, in “X-Men ’97,” an animated series based on the beloved ’90s “X-Men” series that essentially picks up where that series left off, the same characters, many of the same voices and many of the same creators at least consulted—Kevin Feige was a big fan of the series.
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Today, Disney released a new poster and trailer for “X-Men ’97,” and revealed the rumors are true: the series comes out in March. Here’s the official synopsis:
“X-Men’97” revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
Marvel unveiled the voice cast too: Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, JP Karliak as Morph, Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, AJ LoCascio as Gambit, Holly Chou as Jubilee, Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop, Matthew Waterson as Magneto and Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler.
Dodd, Zann, Buza, Sealy-Smith, Hough, and Britton are all the original voice cast members, and the newcomers are Hale, Chase, Waterson, Karliak, Chou, and Locascio.
Beau DeMayo serves as the head writer; episodes are directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley, and Emi Yonemura. The series also features classic music by The Newton Brothers, and the series is executive produced by Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and DeMayo.
Marvel Animation’s “X-Men ’97,” the all-new series, features ten episodes and begins streaming March 20 on Disney+. Watch the new trailer below.
