Yahoo News How is Marvel's Runaways connected with the MCU?
Remember when the Marvel Cinematic Universe consisted of the films, some Blu-ray One Shots, Agents of SHIELD and the Netflix shows? It was enough to keep up with without having Marvel take over your life.
Now, the Universe is expanding to (deep breath) video-on-demand service Hulu with Marvel's Runaways, and TV channel Freeform (formerly ABC Family) with both Cloak & Dagger and New Warriors. Don't forget Inhumans, which will premiere on ABC later this year.
All of these new projects will have some sort of place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but how?
Marvel TV exec Jeph Loeb spoke at the Television Critics Association press tour (via THR), and explained just how it's all going to work. Kind of.
"How and where it's connected and what it's going to be connected to remains to be seen.
"It lives in a world of if you're a teenager... since it's all connected through social media and its own way, would you be following Iron Man or somebody that was more your age?
"The fact that (the main characters) found each other and are going through this mystery together is what they're concerned about, not what Captain America is doing on a Friday night."
If you didn't already know, Runaways will focus on a group of individuals whose parents are involved in some secret evil organisation business (called Pride in the comics). The kids will join together (probably though Snapchat maps or something hip and cool) and work together to bring them down.
"A lot of the Marvel heroes, as we know, are grown adults that have had something happen to them that irrevocably changed their life. We now have a Spider-Man, who is actually 16 years old.
"It's exciting to us to be able to explore the world of... someone who is trying to figure out who they are as opposed to already knows who they are, and now their whole life has to take a left."
In the relatively simple word of the Marvel movies, Thor: Ragnarok is up next, releasing in cinemas on October 27 in the UK and November 3 in the US.
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