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Marvel Studios' Wonder Man is a deep dive into the state of superhero stories in Hollywood, and a fate that showrunner Andrew Guest wanted to avoid at all costs would be seeing the show scrapped and written off as a tax write-off. If you remember, this is what happened with the Batgirl film starring Leslie Grace that was pulled from release in 2022. But thankfully, Wonder Man lived to see another day and will be released on Disney+ today. 

At a screening hosted at the Directors Guild of America, Wonder Man writer Andrew Guest revealed how production on Wonder Man shut down in the middle of filming due to the strikes during the summer of 2023. 

"We were halfway through ours. 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 [co-executive producer] Brian [Gay] 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," said Guest (via Laughing Place). 

And thank god Marvel Studios didn't decide to axe the show before it was finished. Wonder Man is the Andor of Marvel Studios' Disney+ shows, in that it feels like a cut above the rest of the Marvel Television fare that we've gotten these last few years. Instead of appealing only to Marvel fans, Wonder Man is just a regular good show period that you could show to a complete Marvel newbie. Never bet against the talents of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley. 

All 8 episodes of Wonder Man are streaming now on Disney+.

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