The upcoming Disney+ She-Hulk series has found its director and executive producer in Kat Coiro. The show will focus on the titular character – Bruce Banner’s cousin, Jennifer Walters – who receives Bruce’s Hulk powers in the comics after a blood transfusion. The cast and release date for She-Hulk are yet to be determined, as production has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She-Hulk is just one of a number of high-profile Marvel shows currently in the works for Disney+. The lineup also includes the Scarlet Witch-led WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, and Loki with Tom Hiddleston. With big-budget original programming already working well for Disney+ after the widespread acclaim of The Mandalorian, the various upcoming Marvel series hope to find a similar level of success. In the wake of the Infinity Saga’s conclusion, She-Hulk and the other shows will play a major role in the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Per Deadline, Coiro is in negotiations to direct and serve as executive producer on She-Hulk, with Rick and Morty’s Jessica Gao already on board as head writer. Coiro has been a prolific writer/director in television over the past five years, having worked on hit shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Shameless, and Single Parents. Her next film, Marry Me, which stars Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Silverman, and Owen Wilson, is set to release February 2021.
The impressive catalog of comedy work from both Coiro and Gao indicates She-Hulk may not take itself too seriously. That could be a very good thing given the success of past MCU projects that leaned more towards comedy than drama, like Spider-Man: Homecoming and Guardians of the Galaxy. With no direct ties to existing MCU characters or properties (other than Bruce Banner), She-Hulk has an immense amount of freedom in the style, narrative focus, and direction it could take.
It’s also a good sign to see the head writer and director slots both filled by such qualified women, given She-Hulk’s status as one of Marvel’s leading female superheroes. Questions of representation in Disney productions have been raised more loudly of late given a string of controversies surrounding the live-action Mulan remake. While She-Hulk won’t have the same scrutiny for cultural authenticity, all of Disney’s forthcoming programming will likely be under the microscope. With Coiro and Gao taking the lead, She-Hulk is hopefully on the right track.
Source: Deadline
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