“Wonder Man” Was Almost ‘Marvel’s Batgirl’

Marvel Studios released its “Wonder Man” series in full on Disney+ yesterday, and so far, the response has been pretty positive – the series sits at around 91% with both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, things could’ve been very different. During a recent appearance at THR’s Heat Vision Live event series (via Laughing Place) at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles, veteran TV writer Andrew Guest says the show might not have made it to screens at all.

He indicates that there was serious consideration of scrapping the series as a tax write-off at one point, much like what happened to DC’s “Batgirl” at Warner Bros. Discovery.

Part of that came down to production kicking off before the writer and actor’s strikes in 2023, which began when “we were halfway through” filming says Guest:

“You know, it could have been a tax write-off for Disney, but I know for a fact that the people who were producing this show, like Brian and all of our amazing team there, were fighting their asses off to make sure that we came back and finished this weird, melancholy show. That, you know, was a big, big swing for them.”

While the series didn’t get retooled like “Daredevil: Born Again,” Guest did say Marvel was “looking, thinking about it internally, and writing pages and pages of notes that was like, for when we came back, that was like this thick, but, but it was helpful in some ways.”

The result has been one of the best-received MCU works in some time. Marvel has made no indication about whether they will proceed with a second season.