Why Marvel Zombies makes an excellent film “Young Avengers”

Kamala Khan carries this gore and unbridled adventure, cut into four parts, which looks like a try to put the future of the MCU on the front of the stage. Transformed test.

This time, Captain America will not save the world. And for good reason: it was transformed into a zombie!

Surfing on the excellent episode of season 1 of What If…?, Who presented us in 2021 a parallel land devastated by a pandemic of living dead, Disney+ is released today an extensive suite, resolutely cool. In Marvel Zombies, we find ourselves projected into a world where the Avengers were decimated. The infected are everywhere, indestructible, and some even have powers!

“For me, the most terrifying Marvel characters transformed into a zombie is abomination. Seeing him charged in the job, without any restraint … It’s quite horrible,” laughs in the first the director of the series, Bryan Andrews. His comrade Brad Winderbaum, producer of Marvel Studios and director of animation, believes that “Ghost, the wicked of Ant-Man, is perhaps the most terrifying. Imagine: a zombie who teleports! What can we do against that?”

An endless nightmare for the rare survivors. Especially since Tony Stark is no longer there to find the miracle solution. Those who stay to save humanity are young girls, barely used to their powers. Archère Kate Bishop, the brilliant Riri Williams and her armor, and the sweet Kamala Khan with her Miss Marvel bracelets must take over. They are the ones who are carrying out war on this adventure in four episodes, which takes on the air of first film Young Avengers.

“Yes, clearly, we can see it like that,” confirms Brad Winderbaum. “Lots of young Marvel heroes find themselves on the front line, because … The Avengers have become zombies! So we asked ourselves: who remains to face them? Who is still able to stand in front of them? This is what led us to this cast.”

The Young Avengers – which have existed at Marvel Comics since 2005 – have been teased here and there in recent years in the MCU, as when Kamala came to recruit Kate at the end of The Marvels. The Marvel Zombies animation allows you to take an additional step and show young heroines in action.

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“There is a real alchemy between these three actresses, which overflows with charm,” says Andrews. “Hailee Steinfeld (Kate Bishop), Dominique Thorne (Ironheart) and Iman Vellani (Miss Marvel) form a perfect trio. There is something natural between them, even if they recorded their voices separately! This exercise made them want to be united for real on the screen one day, in live action. On an adventure, compared to classic Avengers. “

Without saying too much about the twists and turns of Marvel Zombies, it is quickly seen that the main heroine is mainly Miss Marvel. The excellent Kamala Khan crosses this universe of living dead with its communicative natural goodness, and through its journey, it is a whole gallery of various characters that burst us, going from Red Guardian to Shang-Chi and his ten rings, passing by Baron Zemo or Blade (owned by Khonshu by Moon Knight), who made his first in the franchise under the features of Mahershala Ali.

“This series is a quest, almost an epic of fantasy,” says Brad Winderbaum. “In a way, Kamala is our sacquet bilbon, our Frodon (laughs). It is a great idealist, an optimistic, who lives a tragedy in a collapsed world and who puts her innocence to the test. Fortunately, she is powerful. She has these bracelets which give her exceptional force. Her powers have nothing to envy to those of many other heroes! Coming from the world of Marvel.

A parade of superheroes that adapts to the codes of the zombical genre and which assumes showing blood that spurts and crushed heads. Very graphic, this Marvel Zombies adventure takes some distance from what the MCU usually offers us. Like a refreshing side, pure pop entertainment that changes from the heaviness of the last films in the saga.

Marvel Zombies, in 4 episodes to see on Disney Plus this Wednesday, September 24.