Marvel Executive Reveals EYES OF WAKANDA Series Pitch

Marvel Studios surprised a lot of fans when they revealed the existence of an animated Black Panther spinoff series called Eyes of Wakanda during a special screening for season 2 of Marvel's What If...? Recently, geek screenwriter Marc Bernardin revealed that he had started working on the series back when the COVID-19 pandemic kept everyone inside. Now, Echo executive producer Brad Winderbaum has revealed even more details about who suggested the premise first, and it turns out that it was not director Ryan Coogler.

 Winderbaum tells Comicbook, "It's a show we're producing in partnership with Proximity Media, with Ryan Coogler as one of our executive producers. The show was brought to us by Todd Harris, who was a longtime storyboard artist at the company, just like Bryan Andrews was, who is the director of What If...?"

"He pitched the show to Ryan and he pitched the show to Kevin and I, and we were like, 'Let's do it.' I don't want to say too much about it, only that people do not see it coming."