‘Marvel Zombies’ Moves Up Release Date!!

This morning, Disney is starting the day off with some good news for MCU fans, or bad news if you prefer your superheroes not turned into flesh-eaters. Marvel Zombies is moving up a full week from October 3 to September 24, meaning the creepy new animated miniseries will now premiere on Disney+ ahead of the spooky season. From there, all four episodes of the What If…? spin-off will air weekly, delivering all the zombie carnage before Halloween. It’s still set to be the second-to-last project from Marvel this year, followed by the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led series Wonder Man coming in December.

Marvel Zombies was first announced back in 2021 as a continuation of the What If…? Season 1 episode, “What If… Zombies?!” Exact details about the plot have been kept under wraps, but it is known that it’ll not only return to that same world where the classic Avengers mainstays have all been zombified, but introduce new survivors based on the MCU and inspired by the Marvel Zombies comic that started it all by The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips. The episode left the world in a bleak spot, with Thanos arriving on Earth like in Avengers: Infinity War, only transformed into one of the living dead with an almost complete Infinity Gauntlet and looming over what was humanity’s last bastion, Wakanda. Spider-Man (Hudson Thames), T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), and the head of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) were en route there to use the Mind Stone to potentially cure the infected populace, but how that plays out remains to be seen.

What little has been shown about the series has teased plenty of infected action, with the likes of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and Blade Knight, a version of Moon Knight and Blade, fighting off the undead together, and a now-infected Okoye leading the zombified army. As seen back at D23 in 2024, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) will also have a big role to play, alongside Katy (Awkwafina), Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), and the Ten Rings. After terrifying viewers in the episode, the infected Wanda Maximoff will be back to haunt the survivors as well, with Elizabeth Olsen making her return for the voice. With a TV-MA rating, this will not be a Marvel show for the whole family, packed with plenty of gore to go around for its zombified heroes.

Who Is Behind the Creation of ‘Marvel Zombies’?

For the miniseries, Brad Andrews, who directed the original What If…? episode, serves as showrunner and executive producer. Emmy-winner and Deadpool & Wolverine co-writer Zeb Wells, meanwhile, created Marvel Zombies. The idea for a full-on horror show came from on high after Marvel‘s television chief, Brad Winderbaum, and president Kevin Feige both pushed for more stories from the apocalypse after seeing “What If… Zombies?!” With four episodes of run-time and a mature rating, they had all the runway for something bigger, badder, and bloodier with a much darker tone than expected of Marvel and Disney.