X-Men '97 season 2 is already happening.
Summary X-Men ‘97 Supervising Producer and Head Director, Jake Castorena, details the deep work that went into bringing the technical elements to life in the Marvel animated series. Disney+ is releasing X-Men '97 this week, marking both a new and familiar era for the Marvel audience. With the X-Men rights finally back at Marvel Studios, their first venture into the mutant mythology is revisiting one of the most defining properties in the Marvel media legacy.
Jake Castorena: Yeah, absolutely. I love answering that question. The visual aspect is definitely what I was brought on for, to help guide and work with the team to give us the show that we remember 30 years. There's so many things in animation right now - not just animation being pushed as a level of storytelling the children's medium - but just the bar of what can be done in TV and feature animation. We got to stay relevant, but it's got to feel in that sandbox of the 90s.
Can you talk about finding that fine line between '90s nostalgia and staying relevant and pushing the medium forward? Jake Castorena: You gotta give a shout out to Chris Graf, our lead effects animator that makes this stuff pop. What are those mutant abilities that we love and we've seen before, but what does that look like in HD? How much is too much? Graf and the team knocked that out of the park. We have some of the best artists in the game right now and everybody is bringing their A-game to this.
To bring it back to what you said before, it's one thing to be on an X-Men show, that's great. But it's another thing to be on this X-Men IP, the X-Men, who are the voices you hear when you read the comics. These are the moves and the characters you look to when you hear or somebody talking about the X-Men, right? That was it for me, getting to draw all the characters in the Blackbird for the first time on our show, that was cool.
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