Disney’s ABC Is Circling An All-Female Marvel TV Show

When it comes to better representations, Marvel Television is steps ahead of their cinematic counterparts. They have heroes of different colours, genders, and sexualities gracing our small screens, and now they’re moving one step even further.

There was a scene in Avengers: Infinity Wars that excited a lot of people, even to the point of making Evangeline Lilly (Wasp) stood up and cheered. No, we’re not talking about when Steve Rogers appeared with his glorious beard, but when Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and Okoye fought Proxima Midnight. This all-female scene sparked an interest in many for an all-female Avengers movie.

Though that all-female Avengers movie might not happen anytime soon, it doesn’t look like it on the Marvel Television side. American network ABC is working with Marvel, to create a series about female superheroes, with Allan Heinberg at the helm. Heinberg and Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb are executive producing the series. And as with any news Marvel puts out, that’s about all we know for now.

With how Marvel Television and Marvel Studios work, it’s almost certain that none of the female characters from the movies will star in this TV series. Don’t worry, though, they might be getting a limited series instead.

This television series is focusing on new, lesser-known heroes instead. This isn’t the first time Marvel and ABC introduced us to lesser-known heroes. Chloe Bennett stars as Quake in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., an Inhuman with the power to generate powerful waves of vibration.

Heinberg is no stranger to working with superheroes or female characters. He was the writer of the critically acclaimed Wonder Woman, worked with Shonda Rhimes on Shondaland’s Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, and was on other, more female-centric shows like Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City.

Heinberg has experience writing comics, too. He created Young Avengers and Avengers: The Children’s Crusade with co-creator and artist Jim Cheung.

Though we have no idea who the series will focus on, here’s a wishlist of the heroes we want to see:

• America Chavez
• Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)
• She-Hulk (Jeniffer Walters)
• Singularity
• Dust (Sooraya Qadir)
• Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
• Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy)

Now some of those characters have a small possibility of ever being made in a Marvel Television series (the Spiders belong to Sony and Dust is a part of X-Men) but there’s no harm in hoping. America Chavez and Kate Bishop have the biggest chance to be part of this live-action series. They are both parts of the Young Avengers series, and Marvel still owns their adaptation rights.

If you’re interested to find out how an all-female superhero team could be like, we suggest you read A-Force. Just take a look at the cover and you can see that Marvel has a smorgasbord of female superheroes to choose from. And that’s not even all of them.