Should Marvel ever release the New Warriors and Most Wanted pilots?
Of the many shows in development at Marvel Television during the 2010s, two of the canceled ones, New Warriors and Most Wanted, had completed pilots. The New Warriors pilot, according to the showrunner himself, did extremely well in test screenings, but moved away from Freeform, where it was meant to air originally, the network that also featured Cloak & Dagger, and could not find another network before it was canceled, due to some unnamed high level executive. Most Wanted was the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff focusing on Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter, which was meant to be on ABC, but it wasn't apparently 'as strong' as some other pilots.
Personally, I think we should get both of these. If Marvel has no plans for the New Warriors in the next decade or so, they should release it, and even if they do, they should release it as a non-canon thing, and they should release Most Wanted, because more Bobbi and Hunter would always be great.
Personally, I think we should get both of these. If Marvel has no plans for the New Warriors in the next decade or so, they should release it, and even if they do, they should release it as a non-canon thing, and they should release Most Wanted, because more Bobbi and Hunter would always be great.
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It has to be terrible too. Imagine no one wanting to pick up a Marvel show in the peak Marvel Studios period?
That being said, I'm surprised no one has leaked these pilots yet and would love to see what they were.
* it was a "high level executive" who had authority over the show in 2018
* the person was fired from Disney for vile behavior sometime between 2018 (when New Warriors was canned) & 2021 (when showrunner Kevin Biegel posted about it)
* it specifically was not Jeph Loeb
It's very hard to imagine anyone but Perlmutter who meets those criteria:
* Loeb is Loeb, so he fails the "not Loeb" check.
* Bob Iger, Kevin Feige, Channing Dungey (then head of ABC Entertainment), & Karey Burke (then head of Freeform) were never fired. [Iger tried to retire, Dungey left for a better job, Feige & Burke were both *promoted*.]
* Alan Horn, Bob Chapek, & Feige never had authority over the project [Feige wouldn't get control of TV until 2019].
* Horn & Chapek weren't fired for behavioral reasons.
* Nobody else is really "high level" in this regard.
There really isn't any advantage to releasing these kind of things. If it's bad, then no one wants to be associated with a bad project. If it's good, it doesn't matter.
As far as most wanted.... If I'm honest I find it hilarious that they went through a whole song and dance about Bobbi and lance leaving SHIELD and explicitly saying that they can never ever come back so they can go off to a show that no one will ever see.
So I'm on the fence about most wanted.
There's no way they'd nuke a school, so he'd probably just accidentally hit his girlfriend in a fit of rage while fighting the bad guy, then get a cool Anakin-scar and be like, "I'm so damaged, call me Penance. I'm all messed up."