M.O.D.O.K. (TV series)

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., or simply M.O.D.O.K., is an upcoming American stop motion and adult animated streaming television series created for Hulu by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series was produced by Marvel Studios through Marvel Television and Marvel Animation, with Blum serving as showrunner.

M.O.D.O.K.
Official logo
Genre
Created by
Based on
Starring
ComposerDaniel Rojas
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Jordan Blum
  • Patton Oswalt
  • Karim Zreik
  • Jeph Loeb
Production companies
Release
Original networkHulu

Patton Oswalt stars as M.O.D.O.K., a supervillain struggling to handle his company and family. Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Beck Bennett, Jon Daly, and Sam Richardson also star. M.O.D.O.K. was officially announced with a series order at Hulu in February 2019, as part of a group of series based on Marvel characters that were intended to lead to a crossover special titled The Offenders, with it being produced by Marvel Television and Marvel Animation. Oversight of the series was moved to Marvel Studios in December 2019 when Marvel Television was folded into that company. The cast was announced in January 2020, with writing and recording completed later. Stop-motion animation for the series is provided by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

M.O.D.O.K. is set to be released on Hulu in early 2021.

Premise

After spending years failing to gain control of the world and battling superheroes along the way, M.O.D.O.K., having been removed from his company A.I.M. after it falls into bankruptcy and is sold to the rivaling GRUMBL, begins to deal with his tainting family while facing a mid-life crisis.[1][2]

Cast and characters
  • Patton Oswalt as George Tarleton / M.O.D.O.K.:
    A floating robotic engineered head who is the former leader of A.I.M. and is obsessed with having control and conquering the world. He dislikes superheroes and his rival supervillains, believing he should be superior to them, before facing a mid-life crisis with his suburban New Jersey family.[1][3][4]
  • Aimee Garcia as Jodie Tarleton:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s wife who questions his role as the superior supervillain. She decides to pursue a new career change after running a mom-blog, earning money to support their family before becoming a supervillain herself, gaining attention from a superhero, which was said to go "beyond expectations for typical sitcom wives".[1][5][3]
  • Ben Schwartz as Lou Tarleton:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s socially awkward 12-year-old son who was created in a lab, is different from the rest of his family, and does not have a care in the world.[1][3][5] The character wears a blue sweatshirt as a nod to Schwartz voicing characters associated with that color in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, and Sonic the Hedgehog.[6]
  • Melissa Fumero as Melissa Tarleton:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s popular 17-year-old daughter who shares her father's appearance. She is the most popular girl at her high school and wants to gain her father's approval as a supervillain.[1][3]
  • Wendi McLendon-Covey as Monica Rappaccini: M.O.D.O.K.'s workplace arch-nemesis whom he is forced to work with.[1]
  • Beck Bennett as Austin Van Der Sleet:
    M.O.D.O.K.'s new boss in his twenties who is from GRUMBL, a large tech company that invests in and takes control of A.I.M.[1][5][4]
  • Jon Daly as Super-Adaptoid: A robot who has high ambitions as an artist and hates being enslaved as M.O.D.O.K.'s servant.[1][3]
  • Sam Richardson as Gary: M.O.D.O.K.'s loyal henchman who is constantly optimistic.[1]

Production

Development

In February 2019, it was announced that Marvel Television and Marvel Animation were developing an adult animated television series based on M.O.D.O.K., with a series order at Hulu, along with ones based on Hit-Monkey, Tigra and Dazzler, and Howard the Duck, that were intended to lead up to a crossover special titled The Offenders. The series was created by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, both of whom were expected to write for the series and executive produce alongside Jeph Loeb.[7][8][9] In December 2019, Marvel Television was folded into Marvel Studios, which carried subsequent oversight of the series.[10] The following month, Marvel decided not to move forward with Howard the Duck, Tigra & Dazzler, and The Offenders, with M.O.D.O.K. and Hit Monkey continuing as planned.[11]

Writing and casting

The series' announcement revealed that Oswalt was set to voice M.O.D.O.K.[12] In January 2020, Craig Erwich, Hulu's Senior Vice President of Originals, revealed that "a few episodes of" the series had completed recording,[13] which was followed shortly by the announcement of Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Beck Bennett, Jon Daly, and Sam Richardson as the series' cast.[1] By that October, Oswalt confirmed that writing and audio recording for the series had concluded,[14] under the working title Bighead.[15] Oswalt stated that Marvel allowed him and the creative team to include a variety of popular and relatively unknown characters in the series, which include several superheroes and members of X-Men-related teams.[3]

Animation

Work on the stop-motion aspects of the series was revealed to have been completed by October 2020 with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios providing the visuals for the episodes, which had "every frame [packed] with crazy detail".[14] During the series' New York Comic Con online panel later that month, Oswalt revealed that Stoopid Buddy Studios created "innovative technology" that used handheld-styled cinematography techniques for the stop-motion puppet designs of the characters and environment.[4]

Music

Daniel Rojas serves as the composer for the series.[14]

Marketing

In September 2020, Hulu revealed the series' logo,[16] and Entertainment Weekly released first look images for the series on October 9, 2020,[17] ahead of a panel that was held during the virtual New York Comic Con later that day, where Blum and Oswalt presented two clips from the series and a behind-the-scenes B-roll.[5]

Release

M.O.D.O.K. is scheduled to be released on Hulu in early 2021.[14]

References
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  15. Perry, Spencer (October 5, 2020). "Marvel's MODOK Co-Creator Shares Behind-the-Scenes Photos". Comicbook.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  16. Arvedon, Jon (September 9, 2020). "MODOK: Hulu Debuts Logo for the Animated Marvel Series". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on September 10, 2020. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
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