Kevin Feige Confirms a NOVA Marvel Series is in Development and Verifies Timeline in Which it Will Debut

There have been many rumors over the years from fans, speculating about when we may see the addition of the Marvel character Nova. Now we finally have confirmation that a Nova project is officially in the works, and Marvel President Kevin Feige has given us a timeframe in which we can expect the series.

Feige sat down with ComicBook, and when he was asked about Nova, he responded, "It's happening, it's coming together. Richard Rider, yep." Then when it was asked whether this would be in a movie or show format, Feige said, "A show, yeah, yeah."

As for when the project is slated to actually hit the small screen, there's still some time on that front, as Feige said, " It's three or four years out."

It was previously learned that a Nova project was in development thanks to an interview with Marvel's head of streaming, animation, and television, Brad Winderbaum, who said:

"We love Nova. We are in really early development on Nova. We have a new system behind the scenes at Marvel Studios. We're more like a traditional studio now. We're developing more than we actually will produce.

There are plans to develop Nova. I love Nova, too. I love Rich Rider, too. I hope it gets to the screen. The world is always chaos. There's always things. You gotta conjure these things to make them happen but I would love to see a Nova show, one day."

At one point Nova was included in an early draft for Avengers: Infinity War, but despite effort from the film’s writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, to fit him in, he wasn't ultimately included.

Fans were also surprised not to see him not included in any of the Guardians of the Galaxy films, as the Nova Corps is included and interact with the Guardians quite a bit throughout the comics.

In an interview with James Gunn, he explained why he never included Richard Rider in his iterations of the Nova Corps.

"Yeah, I never had Richard Rider in anything. He's just too big of a character and he seemed too... I didn't want to... From the beginning, when I came on board Guardians, I didn't want to have two human beings.

I wanted to have one human being so that he could be surrounded in this world of aliens. And then we realized little by little, that all of these characters are the only of their kind, they're the only human being to them, you know?"

But now he’s finally on his way. Are you excited for the Nova series? Who do you think would be a good actor to play the role?