Marvel has released the first look at Hulu's upcoming stop-motion series starring Patton Oswalt, Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
The first image -- with more found at Entertainment Weekly -- features Oswalt's M.O.D.O.K., Aimee Garcia (Lucifer) as his wife Jodie, Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) as his oddball son Lou, and Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as his daughter Melissa, who shares her father's striking appearance.
"We obviously love the character as this big villain who is always trying to take over the world and run his evil organization [AIM]. His design by Jack Kirby is so absurd and monstrous that we thought, where does this guy go at night?" executive producer Jordan Blum told Entertainment Weekly. "Does he go home to a house and have all these mundane things he has to do? Does he have a family we never knew about? The more we discussed, the more it just kind of made us laugh and then we tried to figure out well, what would that family be? Who would marry M.O.D.O.K and how hard would it be to be his son or to be a daughter in M.O.D.O.K.'s image?"
In the Marvel comics, M.O.D.O.K. is the leader of the evil scientific organization called A.I.M., short for Advanced Idea Mechanics. The Hulu series will follow the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing as he tries to balance his duties running A.I.M. with his family responsibilities at home. However, instead of facing the likes of Iron Man, M.O.D.O.K.'s nemesis will be a rival company called GRUMBL, that ends up purchasing A.I.M. GRUMBL is led by Austin Van Der Sleet (SNL's Beck Bennett)
"If you're making a show about super villains, you have figure out something more evil [for them to face], so corporations," Blum joked. "It seemed like an interesting foe for M.O.D.O.K. to come up again because it's one thing to try to kill Iron Man, but it's another when you have all this corporate red tape. He can't blast his problems away, which is how he solves every problem. It'll be his greatest test: Can he out-smart a corporation and take back control after he unknowingly gives it away?"
The synopsis for Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. can be found below.
In Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., the megalomaniacal supervillain M.O.D.O.K. (Oswalt) has long pursued his dream of one day conquering the world. But after years of setbacks and failures fighting the Earth’s mightiest heroes, M.O.D.O.K. has run his evil organization A.I.M. into the ground. Ousted as A.I.M.’s leader, while also dealing with his crumbling marriage and family life, the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing is set to confront his greatest challenge yet: a midlife crisis!
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. stars Patton Oswalt as M.O.D.O.K., Aimee Garcia as Jodie, Ben Schwartz as Lou, Melissa Fumero as Melissa, Wendi McLendon-Covey as Monica Rappaccini, Beck Bennett as Austin Van Der Sleet, Jon Daly as Super Adaptoid and Sam Richardson as Gary. The series will stream on Hulu, though has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: Entertainment Weekly