Before Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man release, Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum said the new show will not adapt to the MCU canon.
“It started out as ‘Okay, it’s Spider-Man’s first year, he’s going to be a freshman, can we get away with being completely in the MCU?’ and very early in the development process, we realized how locked in that really had us,” he said the decision was made to avoid limiting the series.
“We couldn’t really use his rogues gallery, we couldn’t really use his origin. Honestly, it wasn’t fun. “We would have had to put a lot of limitations on our story to make it fit into the canon,” the head explained.
Brad concluded that these limitations were hindering creative work on the show, so they decided to abandon it.
“Each of the projects I’ve worked on have all had a life of their own… You have to let them live their own lives and go where they want to go.”
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man focuses on an alternate MCU timeline where Norman Osborn would guide Peter Parker instead of Tony Stark, as the series will be released on Disney Plus on January 29, 2025.
