ABC has ordered a new series, “Marvel's The Inhumans”, based on the classic comic-book characters, in partnership with IMAX. Under a production, marketing and distribution agreement with the theatre chain, a version of the first two episodes of the live-action series will premiere in IMAX theatres next summer. ABC will then debut the weekly hour-long drama on television the following fall.
The series will be produced by Marvel Television in conjunction with ABC Studios and filmed entirely with IMAX cameras. IMAX, a financing partner on the show, will premiere “The Inhumans” in September, 2017.
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Inhumans are a race of super-powered beings who first appeared in Marvel Comics publications in 1965. Inhuman characters appeared last season on ABC drama “Marvel's Agents of SHIELD”. The new series, however, will not be a spin-off of “SHIELD”, but focus on Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans, and his family.
ABC's broadcast of the first two episodes in the series will feature original content not included in the IMAX version.
A movie version of “The Inhumans” had at one time been part of Marvel's feature-film slate, slotted for premiere in 2018. The feature project was later scrubbed from Marvel's slate.
No writer or showrunner has yet been attached to the new series.
Source: Variety