Marvel's YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Animated Series is "a Cut From That Steve Ditko Era of the Comics"
Some new details have been shared for Marvel’s upcoming animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
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.”
Marvel's Head of Animation, Brad Winderbaum, talked about the series in an interview with CB, and it sounds like the kind of show that Spider-Man fans are going to love.
Winderbaum said: "I mean, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is amazing, to say the least. I think it's really going to surprise people. It is very much like a cut from that Steve Ditko era of the comics.”
He went on to explain: “It's Peter Parker back in high school just trying to make it work, take care of his aunt, completely broke, and having to be a superhero. It's so essentially Spider-Man, and what Jeff Trammell, the creator of that show, did, which I think people are going to love, is he built this ensemble of characters around Peter that you fall in love with.
He added: “Similarly, just because it's long-form storytelling, as those relationships brew when the stakes rise in that first season, things feel really tragic and dangerous, and pretty incredible. So, I love that show."
That sounds really cool and I’m looking forward to seeing how that project turns out.
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.