Jordan Blum, co-creator of Marvel's MODOK, has revealed new BTS photos from the forthcoming animated series, including revealing a Third Eye Blind cameo. The series centers on the titular supervillain as he struggles to maintain a grip on his company and family as the former goes bankrupt and the latter begins to crumble under his mid-life crisis. M.O.D.O.K. was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and has served as a recurring foe for Captain America and Ms. Marvel in the comics.
Development on the project was first announced in early 2019 when Marvel Television and Marvel Animation announced it was working on the adult animated project at Hulu alongside similar adaptations of Hit-Monkey, Tigra and Dazzler, and Howard the Duck, with the hopes of crossing over for The Offenders. However, with Marvel TV being folded into Marvel Studios later that year, only MODOK and Hit-Monkey were confirmed to be going ahead as planned. There's even a second season reportedly in development for MODOK, while Marvel scrapped the rest. After assembling an ensemble cast with co-creator Patton Oswalt, Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Beck Bennet, Jon Daly, and Sam Richardson, the series got underway, and production was complete by last October.
Marvel's MODOK co-creator, writer, and executive producer Blum took to his Twitter to share new BTS photos from the Hulu series to celebrate its early rave reviews. Blum's photos included looks at Thor's iconic Bifrost, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, Garcia's Jodie and Nathan Fillion's Wonder Man, and, more interestingly, Richardson overlooking a Third Eye Blind cameo concert. The images can be viewed below:
Roping in musician cameos for film and TV titles is nothing new to viewers, even fans of Marvel given Method Man's cameo in Netflix's Luke Cage. But where some might be baffled at why Third Eye Blind, of all groups, are the ones to appear in the series, early teases of time-traveling shenanigans make it a little more understandable how the alt-rock band made their way into the story. Plus, with the offbeat writing fans have come to love and expect from both Blum and Oswalt, the "Semi-Charmed Life" performers certainly fit the bill for a cameo appearance in the series.
Whether you're a fan of Third Eye Blind or not, there's certainly a lot of promising things behind Marvel's MODOK for audiences to get excited about. Between its talented ensemble cast, early acclaim and major support from Marvel, and Oswalt's recent reveal that the studio didn't say no to anything he wanted, there's undoubtedly a bright future for the animated series. Viewers will have to wait and see how it all shakes out when it debuts on Hulu on Friday.
Source: Jordan Blum/Twitter