User blog:ARTaylor/Marvel Asks What If?

/Film has learned that Marvel Studios will be producing an animated series based on the What If? comics from Marvel Comics. Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios will oversee the project. The series is expected to premiere on the upcoming streaming service Disney+.

For those who don't know, What If? is a series of comics that have been produced since February 1977. They usually feature Uatu the Watcher asking if some aspect in the Marvel Universe has been changed in some way. They usually become part of the Marvel multiverse, sometimes being revisited. Classic stories ask if Jane Foster had found the hammer of Thor, if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four, and if Captain America had won the Civil War. The most famous story involved asking if Spider-Man had a daughter, introducing the world to the Spider-Girl Mayday Parker becoming the basis for the entire popular MC2 line.

Like the comics, the animated series will be an anthology series. It will explore how the Marvel Cinematic Universe might have gone if things were different, though it will not be cannon to the live-action franchise. One such episode will follow a classic issue of Loki finding Mjolnir. It is unknown if any actors from the MCU will reprise their roles.