Believe it or not, there’s actually another Marvel show arriving this month in the form of Hit-Monkey. The animated adult-orientated series is headed to Hulu and while it won’t be a Marvel Studios production, it turns out that it could’ve been.
According to writer Josh Gordon, they pitched the project to Kevin Feige and co., before it took the form of an animated show. Speaking in a recent interview, he said:
“We have been obsessed with Hit-Monkey for about 10 years and actually pitched it to Marvel repeatedly. Every meeting we would have up there, we’d be like ‘You guys should make Hit-Monkey. That’s the coolest,’ to the point where they were like, ‘Yeah, I know. We get it. You like Hit-Monkey.’ And actually, they were like, ‘You’re not the first directors to actually pitch Hit-Monkey.’ It’s got a bit of a cult following.”
“The next day, we had a meeting with the film division and with the TV division,” Gordon adds. “And the TV division bit, and they went, ‘Yeah, we actually have a place to use this. We want to do it as an animated show,’ which made a lot of sense to us. Because the production of it, like shooting it in Tokyo and the level of live-action sort of funds and resources it would’ve taken to really pull it off were pretty substantial. So suddenly we’re like, ‘Oh, wow, let’s do it as a really cinematic kind of cool animated version of it,’ and it all just came together really quickly.”
Look for Hit-Monkey to shoot its way onto Hulu on November 17th.
Source: ComicBook.com
