Feb 21, 2022
The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Lauren, Agent Michelle,
Consultant Chris, and Producer of the show Director SP discuss the
1992 Marvel Entertainment Group X-Men The Animated Series season
two episodes “‘Till Death Do Us Part: Part 1,” “‘Till Death Do Us
Part: Part 2,” “Whatever It Takes,” and “Red Dawn,” and “Repo Man.”
They also discuss the top Marvel Studios news stories of the week
including what Netflix is doing with the Marvel series, that Doctor
Strange Superbowl Trailer and that Moon night Superbowl Trailer.
The Team debriefs you on National Random Acts Of Kindness Day, a
profile on Fox Kids Executive Sidney Iwanter, a Legends Of
S.H.I.E.L.D. Previously On in honor of X-Men The Animated Series,
episode synopses, Morph’s return, the grandiose and fabulous Mr.
Sinister, Xavier and Magneto’s buddy comedy journey, Xavier’s
walking in the Savage Land, The Shadow King, Storm’s character
background and her two voice actors, Rogue and Storm Girl Power
passing the Bechdel test, Colossus’ return to the series as a
Golden Retriever, Matt LeBlanc or Mr. Peanutbutter (from BoJack
Horseman), Alpha Flight because Canada, Wolverine’s Bone Claws and
Len Wein, the noted mutant cameos , killing the Cyclops robot, and
what Wolverine’s type is. Stay tuned after the credits for a few
minutes of Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. bonus audio.
THIS TIME ON LEGENDS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.:
- Marvel Entertainment’s X-Men The Animated Series As Shown On
Disney+
- Discuss the 1992 X-Men Animated Series season 2 episodes
1-5
- Some background into Fox Kids Network Developer Sidney
Iwanter
- Weekly Marvel Studio News
- What Netflix is doing with the Marvel series
- That Doctor Strange Superbowl Trailer
- That Moon night Superbowl Trailer
- Your Feedback
- Your favorite Marvel Comics Base video games
- Your Multiverse Mutant and Avengers Team Ups
- Your Favorite Rocking Marvel Character on Tour
Tom Holland’s Lip Sync Battle - Rhianna’s Umbrella
https://youtu.be/SgxEnEzJhBA?t=73
X-MEN THE ANIMATED SERIES S2E1 – S2E5 [3:50]
X-Men The Animated Series Fox Kids Network Executive Sidney
Iwanter Profile
- IMDB Credits
-
- 1 Developer Credits since 1985
- Background
-
- Father fought in WWII (Lithuanian Jew)
- Polish Cavalry
- Joined the French - Captured at Dunkirk
- Liberated from Concentration Camp
- Fought in Battle Of The Bulge
- Degree in History from the University Of Wisconsin
- Accepted to UCLA film school but dropped out after a 1 ½
- Got a job at channel 9 because he was a fast typist
- That job led to a job at Paramount pictures
- That led to a job at Hanna-Barbera in 1979
- Same boss hired him in 1989 at Marvel Entertainment
- Same boss hired him at Fox Kids a year later
- Most proud of X-Men The Animated Series
- Was Fox Kids network Executive Director on X-Men The Animated
Series
- Multi-leveled stories
- References to Voltaire and Shakespeare
- Show’s premise, outlines, scripts, story writers, first cuts
and final cuts
- Okays the show’s writers
- Worked with Joe Calamari of Marvel to finalize premises
- Bringing Morph back in season two was to satisfy a promise to
Avery Coburn, the Broadcast Standards and Practices Person that the
show would bring Morph back like a Soap Opera
- X-Men The Animated Series was never designed for Adults. It was
always designed for kids 6-11 years old
- Sidney’s favorite X-Men was Beast
- Wishes that the animation was better and they had the same
budget Warner Bros was able to spend for Batman
- The show was successful because:
- Multilayered stories and great writing
- Worked the characters backstories into their actions
- Understood the philosophies of characters
- Great voice talent
- Interviews
-
- Oral History: Sidney Iwanter
- https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2021/08/06/iwanter/
- 01:00:01
- Tortorice: So, this brings up then your
post-UW career. What did you do? How did you how did you end up in
the entertainment business?
- Iwanter: I slept with all the wrong people. What happened was I
went out to UCLA Film School. I got accepted to, I got accepted
there. But I didn’t like it. In fact, I basically dropped out after
maybe a year, year and a half. Why? Because academically, it was
the pits.
- Doney: Do you want a water?
- Iwanter: Oh, no. Thank you. I had…
- Tortorice: Especially when compared to UW,
right?
- Iwanter: Yeah. No, I’m I’m being serious about
that. I had my major professor and film was Russell Merritt.
- Tortorice: Fantastic teacher.
- Iwanter: PhD from Harvard in Comp Lit. And he
used to say to me, He’s now Berkeley, he’s Berkeley emeritus now.
He used to say to me, You don’t study film. As. Unless, you don’t
study film, as film, it’s part of an interdisciplinary study. So in
other words, if you’re going to study film, you study it through
English Lit, French Lit, History, Comp Lit, you know, economics. It
doesn’t make any difference. But it’s not. Film is an art form, but
it also is as an art form. You, if, if you’re studying Renaissance
artists, you have to study Italian, you have to study the history.
You have to know what’s going on at, in Florence and Venice and
Rome at the time. Okay. The teachers at UCLA at that time and maybe
still there. All they did was study film. But they studied film as
if it were in a vacuum. They might as well have just been reading
Daily Variety. I hated it, hated it with a passion. There was no
intellectualism. There was, it was, it was like a wasteland. And I
was really pissed because I had also gotten accepted to NYU. And,
you know, and but I couldn’t afford NYU. And I could afford UCLA
only because if you stayed there for a year, you’d become a
California resident.
- 01:02:59
- And so I basically dropped out after about a year, year and a
half. And I thought to myself, should I go back to Madison? No,
because I don’t want my mother telling me. “Well, I told you so,”
honest to God. So I stayed out in Los Angeles and I, weaseled my
way into a job. My girlfriend, who I met here in Madison, we went
out together to Los Angeles. And so she had gotten a job at J.
Walter Thompson. And one day she says to me, Sidney, there’s a job.
I hear from a friend who’s working at a TV station, Channel 9
(KHJ-TV), which was General Tire at the time, which is now owned by
Disney. The station the there’s a job available there as a
teletypist, you can type. And maybe you can go get the job and get
off your ass. I says okay.
- And I, I went there, I got the job. And the reason I got the
job was that the person who had promised she wanted it had gone
elsewhere and they just needed somebody. And so I actually had to
take a typing test.
- And so and I had prior to that, I worked at the phone company
for 18 months as a teletypist. So I was really quick at this. So I
got the job at Channel 9 and I got it through a woman named Shelby
Conti, whose husband was a struggling composer named Bill [William]
Conti, who was the guy from Rocky eventually, you know, an Oscar
winner, you know, and so on, and then but he’s Bill Conti anyway.
So that job led to a, because I like to talk to people. That job
led to another job at Paramount Pictures Television, which was
right across the street, which in research again, as a typist,
which led to a job at Hanna-Barbera in 1979. I’m encapsulating all
of this because there are all kinds of weird stories that go along
with this stuff. A lot of one of them, I got the job working at
Hanna-Barbera through drugs, but not I wasn’t taking them, but the
person who hired me was and this God as my witness that you know,
and she got fired from Hanna-Barbera because she came out of the
ladies room with a milk sign, but got milk. Well, it wasn’t milk.
So they fired her. They says, you can’t be taking coke. You
work for Hanna-Barbera! You know, we do Scooby Doo.
- 01:06:00
- What are you talking? And you know. Okay. Anyway, so and the
but I had been doing some freelance work for Hanna-Barbera while I
was at Paramount. And then I got fired because she had hired me,
six weeks later. I say, man, I, I gotta I gotta get this this job,
you know, because I’m losing too much money playing the horses at
Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. That’s what, I used to do that to
make I used to make extra money, you know, trying to play the
ponies as well as, you know, poker because they were poker parlors
back then. I was a real reprobate. I had just, you know, I would
have probably ended up as something straight out of Guys and Dolls
if I hadn’t gotten this job.
- So I, I called, I called up to get my Hanna-Barbera job back,
which was just a freelance job. And the person who answered the
phone was the person who had just, had replaced the woman who had a
coke problem, because she answered the phone because her secretary
was in the bathroom. And one thing led to another. And this woman
hired me. And this woman became my like my Rabbi in a way, she
hired me and fired me three separate times, all for insubordination
over the years, different jobs. And so she hired me at
Hanna-Barbera. She hired me ten years later at Marvel
Entertainment. And then a year after that at Fox Kids, where I
became, everybody got to know me because of the shows I worked on,
like in animation like X-Men and Batman and Beetlejuice and
Spider-Man and Silver Surfer and Goosebumps. And so I mean, you
know, and that’s basically, you know,
- Tortorice: So you kind of fell into it, it
sounds like.
- Iwanter: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I fell into it
because, and a lot of people fall into it.
- Tortorice: Right.
- Iwanter: Because those of us who didn’t, you
know, when I went to UCLA, I didn’t want to become a production
person. I think I wanted to, I wanted to be Harvey Goldberg or
George Mosse and I knew I couldn’t because I don’t I don’t speak
like that, you know, and so and I just ramble on and I just, you
know, my, my stories, most of them are, you know, except the ones I
tell you, you know, that there’s a lot of tall tale-isms about it,
you know, that sort of stuff. But, but yeah, you do. I fell into it
like a lot of people. And I’ve spent 40 years in kids
programming.
- Tortorice: What are you most proud of in terms
of your work in kids programming?
- Iwanter: The X-Men, the X-Men show. Because
they still talk about it today.
- 01:09:00
- Because this, what this show did, this is animation from, it
basically revived the Marvel Universe. It proved you could do this.
[Bryan] Singer, the, the, the Director of the first X-Men movie,
never read a comic book. He said, I only watched the series to get
my, you know, to, to understand that world. And I was the network
executive on that show, which meant that everything passed by my
desk. All concepts, all scripts, all storyboards, all the, all the,
you know, the, the pre-, the post-production. I was there with the
editors and all this other stuff. And to this day it’s probably the
most sophisticated storytelling. For a children’s. I don’t know if
you’ve ever watched it?
- Doney: Yeah, I have.
- Iwanter: And, you know, it is, the animation
might have sucked, but those stories, man, they were, they were
multi-leveled. There was, there was, there, were, there was a
character Beast who would always quote Voltaire and Shakespeare. I
mean, you know, I got away with murder on this, because it was my
show and nobody could touch it. And I did stuff that had never been
done before in, you know, for kids programming.
- And yeah, I made, I made those kinds of references. And it’s,
that sort of stuff has been lost today because the people who make
these decisions are stupid and they don’t believe that kids are
smart enough. And even though you know, you’ve got, you’ve got the
six-month-olds with their computers in front of them and you know.
But so yeah, that I’m, I’m, I’m, I’m also proud of surviving, you
know, because it’s not it was not an easy business. And because
you’re always fighting for tenure and that’s your only as good as
your, as you’re not good at all. No matter forget about what you
just did. What are you gonna do for me now type of thing. So
yeah.
- Blast From the Past TV Interview
- http://www.blastfromthepasttv.com/siwanterinterview.html
- 15 year anniversary of the show
- Executive Director Of X-Men The Animated Series
- Show’s premise, outlines, scripts, story writers, first cuts
and final cuts
- Okays the show’s writers
- Worked with Joe Calamari of Marvel to finalize premises
- Bringing Morph back in season two was to satisfy a promise to
Avery Coburn, the Broadcast Standards and Practices Person that the
show would bring Morph back like a Soap Opera
- X-Men The Animated Series was never designed for Adults. It was
always designed for kids 6-11 years old
- Sidney’s favorite X-Men was Beast
- Wishes that the animation was better and they had the same
budget Warner Bros was able to spend for Batman
- The show was successful because:
- Multilayered stories and great writing
- Worked the characters backstories into their actions
- Understood the philosophies of characters
- Great voice talent
X-Men The Animated Series Season Two Episodes 1-5 Premiered on
“Fox Kids”
- (Episode Order As Shown On Disney+, Premiere Dates As Shown On
Fox)
- S2E1 “‘Till Death Do Us Part: Part 1” Saturday October 23rd,
1993
- S2E2 “‘Till Death Do Us Part: Part 2” Saturday October 30th,
1993
- S2E3 “Whatever It Takes” Saturday November 6th, 1993
- S2E4 “Red Dawn” Saturday November 13th, 1993
- S2E5 “Repo Man” Saturday November 20th, 1993
- Produced By:
- Will Meugniot
- Larry Houston
X-Men The Animated Series Main Cast
- Cedric
Smith
... Professor X /
Charles Xavier
-
- 117 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Norm
Spencer
... Cyclops / Scott
Summers
-
- 31 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Catherine
Disher
... Jean Grey /
Phoenix
-
- 122 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Alison
Sealy-Smith
... Storm / Ororo
Munroe
-
- 72 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Iona
Morris
... Storm / Ororo
Munroe
-
- 101 Credits
-
- Star Tek TOD (Little Girl)
- Claudian Grant on Robotech
- 2xStar Trek: Voyager
- Lenore
Zann
... Rogue
-
- 110 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Cal
Dodd
... Wolverine /
Logan
-
- 34 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Alyson
Court
... Jubilee /
Jubilation Lee
-
- 100 Credits, best known for X-Men
- George
Buza
... Beast / Dr.
Henry 'Hank' McCoy
-
- 163 Credits, best known for X-Men
- Chris
Potter
... Gambit / Remy
LeBeau
-
- 58 Credits
- The Pacifier
- Heartland
- Don Francks
... Sabretooth /
Graydon Creed Sr.
-
- 191 Credits
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Heavy Metal
- Brett Halsey
... Bolivar
Trask
-
- Barry
Flatman
... Henry Peter
Gyrich (works with Trask)
- David
Hemblen
... Magneto / Erik
Magnus Lehnsherr
- Lawrence
Bayne
... Cable / Nathan
Dayspring-Summers
-
- Randall
Carpenter
(She)
... Mystique /
Raven Darkholme (voice)
-
- Lally Cadeau
... Dr. Moira
MacTaggert
- Stephen
Ouimette
... Angel / Warren
Worthington III
- John
Colicos
... Apocalypse / En
Sabah Nur
- Rick
Bennett
... Colossus /
Piotr Rasputin / Juggernaut / Cain Marko (voice)
- Philip
Akin
... Bishop (voice)
(as Phil Aiken)
- Marc
Strange
... Forge
(voice)
- Chris
Britton
... Mr. Sinister /
Nathaniel Essex
- Ron
Rubin
... Morph
- Maurice Dean
Wint
... Shadow
King
- Robert
Cait
... Colossus /
Piotr Rasputin
- Tara Strong
... Illyana
Rasputin
NEWS [47:46]
UPCOMING MARVEL STUDIOS SLATE OF PROJECTS
- Moon Knight will premiere March 30th, 2022 on Disney+
-
- Confirmed During Disney+ Day 12 Nov 20211
- Series Synopsis Released:
-
- First Trailer Released:
-
- Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered on December 17th, 2021.
-
- Will premiere streaming on Starz
-
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (May 6, 2022)
- Ms Marvel is supposed to premiere late in 2021 on Disney+ but
no date has been announced.
-
- The series was confirmed on Disney+ Day 12 Nov 2021 (Summer
2022)
- Series synopsis: https://www.cbr.com/ms-marvel-captain-marvel-shadow-synopsis/
-
- Ms. Marvel introduces Kamala Khan--a 16-year-old Pakistani
American from Jersey City. An aspiring artist, an avid gamer and a
voracious fan-fiction scribe, she is a huge fan of the Avengers—and
one in particular, Captain Marvel. But Kamala has always struggled
to find her place in the world—that is, until she gets super powers
like the heroes she’s always looked up to
- Two reports confirm a 2022 date
-
- She-Hulk is supposed to premiere late in 2022 on Disney+
-
- It was confirmed the series was coming in 2022 on Disney+
Day 12 Nov 2021
- Two reports confirm a 2022 date
-
- Thor: Love and Thunder (July 8, 2022)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Nov. 11, 2022)
-
- I Am Groot is in development for release on Disney+
-
- No date has been announced.
- Previous mentioned as a holiday special
- Series confirmed during Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21 as a series of
shorts watching Groot grow up
- Two reports confirm a 2022 date
-
- Secret Invasion is in development for release on Disney+
-
- What If…? Season 2
-
- Confirmed during Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21
- No premiere date indicated
- Possibly moved to 2023”
-
- Ironheart is in development for release on Disney+
-
- No date has been announced.
- Series confirmed on Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21
- Armor Wars is in development for release on Disney+ but no date
has been announced.
- Echo is in development for release on Disney+
-
- Confirmed on Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21 but no release/premiere date
given.
- Agatha: House of Harkness
-
- Announced/Confirmed on Disney+ Day 12 Nov 2021
- An untitled Wakanda series is in development for release on
Disney+ but no date has been announced.
- X-Men ‘97 (2023)
-
- Written by Executive Producer Beau DeMayo.
- Announced Disney+ Day (12 Nov 2021)
- The Marvels (Feb. 17, 2023)
- Marvel Zombies
-
- Animated series announced on Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21
- No date given
- Also, we know there will be a Loki season two at some
point.
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (July 28, 2023)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (May 5th, 2023)
- Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special
-
- Confirmed during Disney+ Day 12 Nov 21
- Different from I Am Groot
- Spider-Man: Freshman Year
-
- Announced during Disney+ Day 12 Nov 2021
- No premiere date given
- Untitled (February 16th, 2024)
- Untitled (July 26th, 2024)
- Untitled (November 8th, 2024)
- List of MCU films in production without premiere dates
-
- Fantastic Four
- Deadpool 3
- Blade
- Avengers-Level Team up to end the phase (not confirmed in
development)
-
- Could be linked to Russo Brothers story from last week
- Captain America Sequel
- Possible X-Men
- Projects that have NOT been announced yet
-
TOP NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK
Netflix Is Removing Its Marvel Shows Next
Month
https://gizmodo.com/marvel-netflix-daredevil-leaving-streaming-march-1-1848523123
Quietly, Netflix has revealed that all six of its original
Marvel streaming series will join a rare handful of Netflix
Originals to leave the service, and it’s not sure yet if, or when,
they’ll appear elsewhere. No news where Daredevil, Jessica Jones,
Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, and The Defenders will
land.
io9 has confirmed via UK and US accounts that in addition to the
Marvel Netflix shows, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will be leaving the
platform at midnight on February 28.
MCU – MARVEL STUDIOS
Dr. Strange Trailer (Aired During The Superbowl).
Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
Madness | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWzlQ2N6qqg
Captain Carter’s Shield Spotted
https://twitter.com/DrStrangeUpdate/status/1493006687397109761
DISNEY+
Big Game TV Spot | Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight |
Disney+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM3Yx-5Ymiw
‘Echo’ Gets A New Working Title (Exclusive)
https://onetakenews.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/echo-new-working-title-exclusive/
One Take News has exclusively learned that Echo has a
working title of Grasshopper. Now you may be saying “Echo already
has a working title” and you’re right. The good people over at The
Cosmic Circus reported that the working title for Echo was Whole
Branzino and while that was indeed the working title, Marvel
Studios likes to have multiple working titles for their projects
and they tend to shift over time. As of right now, Grasshopper is
the title they’re working with and I expect it’ll stick until
filming begins.
FEEDBACK [1:01:10]
TWITTER
https://twitter.com/LegendsofSHIELD/status/1492129854006996997
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Our host @playcomicscast would like to know what has been your
favorite Marvel Comics based video game of all time?
Chris Ferrell @TheChrisFerrell
Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4. Honorable mentions to X-Men Legends
and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
aka LW Salinas @sithwitch
I haven't played the PS4 Spider-Man or thr new GotG game yet. So
right now my favorites are Squenix's Avengers and the Wolverine
game from the early 2000s, the one with Mark Hamill as
Wolverine.
One Bachman A Day...#BlackLivesMatter #KamiGaming
@anthonybachman
Spider-Man on PS4 is the best so far with Miles Morales a close
second.
Dr. Gnome to you @MrParacletes
Top 4:
X-Men Arcade
Spider-Man 2
Maximum Carnage
X-Men on Sega
https://twitter.com/MrParacletes/status/1492852122920140800
Dr. Gnome to you @MrParacletes
Did @StargatePioneer try to make Deanna Troi the Launchpad
McQuack of Star Trek? 🤣
https://twitter.com/LegendsofSHIELD/status/1493576825964015624
Legends S.H.I.E.L.D.@LegendsofSHIELD
Let's pretend that @DrStrange #MultiverseOfMadness will be able
to bring together the Phase I Avengers and The Fox Mutants somehow.
Which MCU Avenger and X-Men Mutant do you want to see team up on
screen? #MarvelStudios #xmen #Avengers #mcu
Chris Ferrell @TheChrisFerrell
Deadpool and Spidey.
Dr. Gnome to you @MrParacletes
Wolverine & Cap, could share WWII stories.
Gambit & Hawkeye. A thief & an assassin. What could go
wrong?
Beast & Banner. 2 Jekyll & Hyde archetypes
pontificating.
Quicksilver & Quicksilver, because why not?
If we extend further phases & do all things Russian, Yelena &
Colossus.
https://twitter.com/LegendsofSHIELD/status/1493995967611392005
Legends S.H.I.E.L.D.@LegendsofSHIELD
Which #Marvel #Superhero would you love to see in a band on
stage on tour?
The Marvelous Madames
@MARVELMadames
I could see Bucky on stage with some eyeliner & a guitar. -
Kris
Dr. Gnome to you @MrParacletes
Ant-Man and the Ant-Tones.
Rhi D @RhiD83
Dr Strange - I'd buy his album which I imagine would be a cross
between Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk
Ky @TheFoxtrot_
The Deke Squad
🇨🇱🌳 Pafmer
🌳🇨🇱@Pafmer4
The deke Squad featuring Daisy Johnson
Kristina #SaveDaredevil
@Kristina4109
Is Lila Cheney too much of a gimme?
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