Marvel Previews ‘X-Men 97’ and ‘What If’ Season 2 at Comic-Con

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Comic-Con panel on Friday, producer Brad Winterbaum and the rest of his creative team showed off some rough animation (animatics really, like moving storyboards) from the very first Marvel Studios “X-Men” project, “X-Men ’97.” They also showed an entire, fully animated episode from the upcoming “What If…?” Season 2 (even though, as the Watcher says, in the opening moments of the episode, “I don’t do sequels”).First, let’s discuss “X-Men ’97.” A continuation of the beloved 1990s animated series, which ran for five seasons between 1992 to 1997, this new iteration is meant to be a direct continuation, both stylistically and in terms of tone. “We fell in love of the melodrama of the X-Men.

That’s what we’re always talking about and joking about – it’s a big soap opera. Who wants to kiss who, who is looking at who awkwardly in a picture frame,” the new series’ head writer Beau DeMayo explained. “But that is what they are at their core.”And the footage really connected to the classic spirit of the original animated series.It’s the original core team, with Wolverine, Jean Grey and the rest, battling some Sentinels that have been unleashed by Trask.

A Sentinel is decapitated, Beast climbs inside of a Sentinel and starts to puppeteer it from the inside. And best of all, the music sounds straight of of the 1990s (this new music is done by the Newton Brothers, frequent collaborators of “Midnight Mass” mastermind Mike Flanagan).

Even without the finished animation, it definitely feels right.“X-Men ’97,” which we’re still not totally sure will be the finished name, will debut on Disney+ in the fall of 2023.