What If Marvel's What If...? - General Discussion

They should have went real meta with it and done it in the style of the Marvel Superheroes Show from the '60s.

 
Exclusive: Marvel's 'What If...?' Episode Count Revealed — And It's Not What You Think

On December 18, 2019, Marvel's Kevin Feige revealed that Season 1 of the animated series What If...? would consist of 10 episodes and that a second season of 10 episodes was already in pre-production. A few weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic struck Hollywood, wreaking havoc on production schedules. This includes What If...?which Collider can now exclusively reveal will consist of just nine episodes — as will Season 2.

Collider spoke to executive producer Brad Winderbaum, who confirmed that the original plan called for 10 episodes before the pandemic forced Marvel brass to reassess.

"We had to push an episode into Season 2. It was just, honestly, like everything else, that was a COVID impact. There was an episode that just wouldn't hit the completion date, but luckily we do get to see it in the second season of the show," said Winderbaum, who added that "Season 2 will also be 9," thereby confirming 18 episodes in total.

Each episode of What If...? has its own pace and story rhythm, so there was no official mandate regarding running time, which gave the writers and animators a bit more creative freedom.

"We targeted a half an hour for each episode. Some of them come in a little longer, some of them come in a little shorter," said Winderbaum. "We wanted to tell as many stories as we could and we had a certain budget we had to work with so it felt like that 10-episode — now 9-episode run — was the right quantity."
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Huh that's interesting. I wonder what episode was they had to move to the 2nd season.

Edit- Based on everything we're seeing in the trailers, I'm guessing its the episode of Stark getting stuck on Sakaar. We haven't seen any footage of that episode and I know there were Lego leaks awhile back with Tony in a makeshift Sakaar suit.
 
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The Disney+Announcement video for August confirmed no double release of the first two episodes. Instead tomorrow we get 3 episodes of Legends!
 
Kev4000 said:
The Disney+Announcement video for August confirmed no double release of the first two episodes. Instead tomorrow we get 3 episodes of Legends!
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Why are we getting Legends of Tomorrow on Disney +? :argh:
 
How Marvel's What If...? Recast Integral MCU Characters And Voices (Exclusive)

For the most part, Marvel's What If...? series wrangled cast members from live-action Marvel Studios films to lend their voices to animated versions of their heroes and villains. There were some exceptions, though. Actors like Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. Scarlett Johansson, Tom Holland, and Brie Larson are among those who see multiverse versions of their heroes appear in the animated Disney+ series with a new actor voicing the part. According to What If...? executive producer Brad Winderbaum, "a couple of things," went into selecting new voices for the animated series.


"One early decision was we were not going to let the show be defined by the actors we thought we could get," Winderbaum told ComicBook.com. "Part of the fun of What If...? is being able to tell stories in any corner of the universe you want to and that means that you need that infinite canvas, you need that infinite potential. Also, I was afraid we wouldn't get any actors to come back. The fact that we got as many as we did, 85% of the actors came back or something like that. It's incredible and it's a real honor and privilege to work with all of them." Among the returning actors is the late Chadwick Boseman, who recorded four episodes of What If...? for his T'Challa character.

As impressive as the list of returning actors from Marvel movies is, Winderbaum and the creative team still faced the difficult task of finding new voices for several well-known characters. "In the cases where we couldn't get the original voice actors back, and many of which were very iconic roles, very identifiable voices, we prioritized the performance over the soundalike," Winderbaum said. "So you might be able to achieve a perfect Tony Stark voice, but if the depth of the character wasn't there and the acting, the performance didn't have dimensionality to it, it wouldn't matter. You'd be taken out. That would take you out."


The loophole here is the fact that these are multiverse stories. The voice being different can be justified just as much as T'Challa being Star-Lord can in these new stories. It's just a question now of whether or not the audience will accept it. "The good news is that all these stories exist in a parallel universe, so there's a cerebral justification for slight differences," Winderbaum said. "But once you accept the different voice, hopefully the performances have a gravity to them, so that you're following these characters as individuals in their own right in this new context."
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I was a little on the fence about the stylistic choice they went for this show, as I wasn't sure if the animation was going to be clunky or not. But seeing this full scene, the animation for it actually seems good. Can't wait for next week.
 
The more I read about this, the more I am leaning towards officially watching it.
 
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