She-Hulk: Lawyer is finally at the gates and editor Jessica Gao recently spoke about how Marvel blocked her ideas because they ‘had other plans.’ Not only that, but some characters won’t be making an appearance because Marvel has stalled plans.
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While discussing the upcoming Disney+ series, Jessica Gao sat down with The Direct and revealed how much fun it was trying to work on this project. As we know, the series involves legal complications and dramas, but its plans did not go smoothly at first.
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She-Hulk Writer Says Marvel Blocked His Plans
According to the editor, She-Hulk: Lawyer was full of mess and mixed reports during its production, with people calling it complicated. While it received enough praise from critics over the direction of the show, that wasn’t the case with Marvel. Jessica Gao tried to integrate that Marvel had other rejection plans. She explained:
“There were a lot of comic book characters – we wanted a lot of comic books for characters in funny situations where we could bring like a character and think of funny reasons why they would get in legal trouble. But there were a lot of characters from the comics that we couldn’t use either because of a rights issue or a few times because Marvel… all they said was they had d other plans. And that’s all they told us. And then we tried very, very hard to push and push and get a little bit more information.
“Of course they wouldn’t tell us. But I will say the one MCU character that really pissed off a lot of the writers in our room that we couldn’t use was Spider-Man and everyone involved – like in the Spider-Man universe. Because we had so many Spider-Man fans in the room.
She also revealed that she had been rejected by Marvel three times on previous projects, including her very first project which she pitched to Marvel, Black Widow.
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She-Hulk Writer Explains Why Marvel Rejected Using Certain Characters
We know that Jessica Gao is known for comedy. Previously, the writer worked on big projects and animated hits like rick and morty and robot chicken, including live broadcasts like Silicon Valley and Nickelodeon Big time Rush. And this month, she’s dropping her Marvel debut as the creator and head writer of She-Hulk: Lawyer.
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Marvel already has tons of characters available to fill vacant roles, and some characters could cause unwanted legal issues due to copyright ownership. But not all of the rejected characters came out for legal trouble, some were intentionally shut down and rejected by Marvel because they had other plans for them.
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She-Hulk: Lawyer will premiere on Disney+ on August 18, with new episodes released every Wednesday.
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