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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Creator on How the Disney+ Show Connects to the MCU — But Isn’t About Tom Holland’s Peter Parker
"Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" creator Jeff Trammell explains how he made the animated series stand out amid all the other Spidey fare.
When Jeff Trammell landed the job of creating Marvel Studios’ animated series “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ” (premiering today), he stepped into the most fertile creative period for the web-slinging superhero in his 63-year history. And the depth and breadth of Trammell’s, er, Spidey sense were vital when it came time when the showrunner, executive producer and head writer began assembling a unique origin story for Peter Parker. To start, Trammell and his writing team made a perhaps counterintuitive decision: While this “Spider-Man” is set in an alternate timeline, it retains many of the narrative touchstones of the main MCU — the story picks up around the events of “Captain America: Civil War,” and the Battle for New York and Sokovia Accords get name-checked.
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