Marvel Confirms X-MEN '97, FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, and EYES OF WAKANDA Are Coming in 2024
Marvel Studios has confirmed two of its highly-anticipated animated projects will be coming in 2024. X-Men ‘97, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakana will be coming to Disney+ next year. They will be released along with a previously unannounced animated series titled Eyes of Wakanda.
In case you’re confused by Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, that is the new title of a previously announced project that was once titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year. As for the new series Eyes of Wakana, there aren’t any official details to share on that.
In X-Men ‘97, "Storm and Wolverine try to continue the X-Men. Magneto comes in and wants to step up for Charles Xavier. Sinister comes in to try to end the X-Men once and for all."
The series brings back the original voice cast including Cal Dodd (Wolverine), Lenore Zann (Rogue), George Buza (Beast), Alison Sealy-Smith (Storm), Chris Potter (Gambit), Catherine Disher (Jean Grey), Adrian Hough (Nightcrawler), and Christopher Britton (Minister Sinister).
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes place before 2016's Captain America: Civil War, but with a noticeable key difference. “Rather than coming home to his apartment to see Tony Stark in his home, it’s none other than Norman Osborn who’s chatting up his Aunt May when he walks through the door. And much like how meeting Tony thrust Peter into a spotlight larger than the kid needed, Peter having Norman as his mentor ‘sends his life in an unexpected trajectory that collides him with many unexpected characters in the Marvel universe.”
The voice cast for the series includes Hudson Thames (What If...?) as Peter Parker, Eugene Byrd (Spidey and His Amazing Friends, 8 Mile) as Lonnie Lincoln, Grace Song (Kidding) as Nico Minoru, Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) as Otto Octavius, Kari Wahlgren (FLCL, Rick and Morty) as Aunt May, and Zeno Robinson (My Hero Academia, Pokemon Master Journeys: The Series) as Harry Osborn. It also includes Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil along with Paul F. Tompkins as Bentley Wittman / Wizard.