John Ridley Gives Update On Secretive Marvel Project

Marvel Television‘s slate of upcoming TV shows is growing exponentially. While Netflix proved there were audiences waiting to be mined on streaming services, Marvel has since doubled down on broadcast shows as well with projects such as Inhumans, Cloak and Dagger, Runaways, and now the New Warriors at various states of production.

But Marvel also announced a few new projects that never made it off the ground, such as Damage Control and the pilot of Marvel’s Most Wanted starring ‘Mockingbird’ Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter.

While the two former espionage operatives can always return on Agents of SHIELD, Damage Control is also making its MCU debut when it appears as a Tony Stark-funded government initiative in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

And there’s one more project announced during that same time that we’ve yet to see hide or hair of since the word came out: John Ridley‘s Secret Marvel Project.

Ridley is the showrunner for ABC’s American Crime and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film 12 Years A Slave.

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His project was announced two years ago but little has been heard of since. Could it have the same fate as the other projects announced during that time? Or is it just taking a little bit more time to cook in the kitchen?

Ridley recently spoke about his Marvel project in a profile by Variety in which they spoke to him and frequent collaborators about his many different TV offerings at the moment, during which Ridley revealed his superhero story is still very much in the cards.

“I still want to do it. Hopefully it will still get done,” he says, adding with a laugh, “They’ve got a release schedule that far exceeds my life expectancy.”

His words seem to indicate that Marvel TV will continue to add new offerings to their slate, and Ridley’s own project is simply a matter of timing.

Hopefully we’ll find out more soon, especially which character could be involved.

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