Head of Television and Animation at Marvel, Brad Winderbaum, said that work on the sequel to "Marvel Zombies" has gone beyond discussing ideas. In The Escape Pod podcast, he confirmed that he has already seen rough cuts of the first scenes of the second season.
"This is madness. I can't reveal anything, but there are things that the MCU has never done before."
Back in January, he only mentioned that showrunner Brian Andrews had returned to work, and the team was working on ideas for a sequel, although the project had not yet been greenlit. Now the situation has become clearer, as the appearance of animatics means that the project is already in active development.
The first season of "Marvel Zombies", released in 2025 on Disney+, became one of the studio's most unusual projects. It is the first Marvel animated series with an "adults only" rating, which grew out of the "What If...?" episode and showed an alternative version of the MCU, where superheroes turn into zombies. Despite the restrained ratings from critics and viewers on aggregators (about 66%), the project showed strong results on Disney+, which allowed Marvel to think about a sequel.