Runaways Showrunners Demonstrate Marvel Rebuilding Lead to Series Cancellation

While fans currently get the chance to appreciate the third season of Marvel’s Runaways after its debut on Hulu, they should make peace with the way this is the finish of an era as the teen superhero series is presently finished. It has been charged as the last season, yet Runaways has basically been canceled after the Marvel Television takeover by movie executive and Marvel Cinematic Universe mastermind Kevin Feige. Marvel showrunners Stephanie Savage and Joshua Schwartz demonstrated that they had plans for more seasons, yet the show’s cancellation is likely the result of corporate shuffling as Feige takes overall creative divisions of Marvel.

Schwartz and Savage talked with TheWrap about the choice to end the arrangement, saying it that it was out of their hands.

“I think it was just a realistic assessment of when it felt like the show might be wrapping up,” Schwartz explained. “Sometimes, these things are out of your control.”

He added, “A lot of times when you’re making a television series, continuing is not always necessarily up to you. You can ascribe whatever factor you’d like to that. We just wanted to make sure that, should it play out that way, we were prepared to have an ending that would be very satisfying.”

The decision shouldn’t come as an astonishment as Marvel Television’s present output has been lessening as far back as the declaration of Disney+ years prior. There was an arrangement set up with Netflix yet each of the six of those arrangements was canceled, much after widely praised seasons of Daredevil and The Punisher.

Cloak & Dagger was canceled at Freeform, the pilot for New Warriors never found a home, Runaways finished after Season 3, Ghost Rider was canceled before creation could start, and Agents of SHIELD is preparing to air its last season in 2020.

“It’s definitely the case that in this new world of streaming, what used to be a five-season, 22-episode arc, is much more often a 10-episode a season, three-season arc. That just seems to be more and more the norm,” Savage explained.

Marvel Studios appears to get ready for Marvel Television as they assimilate their personnel under the filmmaking banner. As Marvel scales up to make various movies every year as well as various shows for the Disney+ streaming service, they’ll need more resources to fulfill these demands.