‘New Warriors’: Freeform Executive On Network’s Relationship With Marvel

Earlier this week, it was announced that Freeform would be the new home of Marvel’s New Warriors. Squirrel Girl would be the central character and will join another Marvel property, Cloak and Dagger on the network, which is owned by Disney.

Freeform network executive vice president Karey Burke, speaking with THR, said that it feels like Marvel and Freeform are a really good fit.

“The more we got to know Marvel and the more comfortable they got with us as the home for their young adult IP, these conversations became easier. They started to see our strength with young adults and together we could create a pipeline for content that was specific to our audience that felt younger than what they’re doing at the other channel. I wanted to be in business with Marvel when I first got here but I didn’t want to chase them just to chase them. It was important to both of us to find the right characters that felt like they would speak directly to Freeform’s audience. The Avengers wouldn’t work here but the about-to-be-Avengers works here.”

And since New Warriors and Cloak and Dagger are to be share the same network, can we expect the two shows to exist in the same universe like the Marvel Netflix shows and the MCU? Burke says “anything is possible.”

“It’s a great question. If you know these two properties, they’re not particularly connected. There are many degrees of separation with where they fall in the Marvel universe. But anything is possible with Marvel. Their tones are so wildly different. Cloak is this angst-filled achingly beautiful heartfelt romantic drama. And Squirrel Girl is a balls-out comedy.”

You can check out the synopsis for New Warriors below.

“Marvel’s New Warriors” is about six young people with powers living and working together.  With powers and abilities on the opposite end of the spectrum of The Avengers, the New Warriors want to make a difference in the world… Even if the world isn’t ready.  Not quite super, not yet heroes, “Marvel’s New Warriors” is about that time in your life when you first enter adulthood and feel like you can do everything and nothing at once — except in this world, bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates.”

New Warriors is slated to land on Freeform at some point in 2018.

Source: THR