Marvel’s Animated ‘Tigra And Dazzler Show’ Loses Showrunner And Entire Writing Staff In “Creative Overhaul”
At the beginning of the year, we learned that Marvel Television was teaming with Hulu onfour new animated showsinspired by various characters from Marvel Comics. There’sM.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Show, andHoward the Duck. Despite the recent shift in power as Jeph Loeb steps down from Marvel TV and Kevin Feige starts to oversee both the film and television sectors of Marvel Entertainment, almost all of the shows remain on track at Hulu. Except for one.
Marvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Show(seen above left) has fired showrunnerErica Rivinoja(Girls Trip, The Addams Family) and the entire writing staff of the animated series due to creative differences with Marvel. In the wake of this development, production has been paused and a major creative overhaul is in the works.The Hollywood Reporterhas word on theTigra and Dazzler Showshifting creative directions. Reportedly, Erica Rivinoja and her writing staff had already finished several scripts and had outlines in place for others, completing 15 weeks of the planned 20-week production. That’s pretty late in the game to figure out there were creative differences between the showrunner and Marvel, which makes us think this is a direct result of Kevin Feigetaking charge of Marvel’s television programming.
Now Marvel is on the hunt for a new showrunner who will build an entirely new writing team. Nothing that was written by the previous team will be used as production essentially starts from scratch. Thankfully, Marvel has no intention on pulling the plug on the show completely, especially since it’s slated to be part of a big animated crossover with the three other shows.
The good news for the eventual crossover, dubbedThe Offenders, is that the new creative direction for Marvel’sTigra and Dazzler Showwon’t have any impact on the other three shows. While all four of the animated series' will meet up inThe Offenders, they’re not interconnected like the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Each will stand on their own individually before coming together for the crossover special without any of the characters meeting each other before then.
The shake-up withMarvel’s Tigra and Dazzler Showcomes not long after Marvel pulled the plug on theGhost Riderseries that was being spun off from Agents of SHIELD. OnceRunawaysairs its third and final season this month, the only live-action Marvel series at Hulu will beHelstrom. But we’ll see how long that lasts now that Disney+ is gaining traction and has a whole slate of Marvel Studios shows on the way.
For your convenience, here’s a quick rundown of all the Marvel animated shows coming to Hulu:
