A couple of Marvel rumors have popped up on the latest edition of The Hot Mic podcast with Jeff Sneider.
First up, he says there’s an unconfirmed report that “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” writer Jeff Loveness is no longer writing the upcoming “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” with the decision made prior to the WGA strike’s commencement.
Sneider says: “Loveness, deserved or not, got a lot of criticism for his scripts and, yes, it sounds like they are going in another direction…. from what my source says.”
The scooper also talked about the upcoming “Echo” series, which was recently announced as being released all at once later this year. The series was hit with multiple reports of production issues over the past year, but that talk was fairly generalised without many specifics.
Sneider’s report goes into more detail and claims extensive reshoots along with more. Sneider says:
“I heard that it was a mess and that the show came in so bad that they basically had to reshoot the entire thing. I’m told that they originally shot eight episodes, and [Kevin Feige] thought it was unreleasable, so they talked about cutting it down to four episodes or six in post.
But then they ended up reshooting it, so my source did not actually know how many episodes they wound up with. But yeah, apparently, it needed a top-down rejiggering, and Kevin was not happy with it.”
“Echo” features the return of Alaqua Cox in the role of Maya Lopez, which she played in “Hawkeye”. Zahn McClarnon, Devery Jacobs, Cody Lightning, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, and Graham Greene co-star, whilst guest stars include Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk and Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock.
“Echo” is slated to be released in its entirety on November 29th, whilst “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” is due out in 2025.
