Cloak & Dagger (TV series)

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Cloak & Dagger
File:Cloak & Dagger logo.jpg
Genre
Created byJoe Pokaski
Based on
Starring
ComposerMark Isham
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Production locationNew Orleans
Production companies
Original release
NetworkFreeform
Related
Marvel Cinematic Universe television series

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger, or simply Cloak & Dagger, is an upcoming American cable television series created for Freeform by Joe Pokaski, based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and other television series of the franchise. The series is produced by ABC Signature Studios and Marvel Television, with Pokaski serving as showrunner.

The series stars Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph as Tandy Bowen / Dagger and Tyrone Johnson / Cloak, two teenagers who acquire superpowers and form a romantic relationship. A television series featuring Cloak and Dagger entered development for ABC Family in July 2011. In April 2016, Cloak & Dagger received a series order for Freeform, the new name of ABC Family, and by that August, Pokaski had joined the series as showrunner and executive producer. Holt and Joseph were cast in January 2017, with Andrea Roth, Gloria Reuben, Miles Mussenden, Carl Lundstedt, James Saito, and J.D. Evermore also starring in the series. Filming for the series takes place in New Orleans.

The series, consisting of 10 episodes, will premiere in 2018.

Premise

Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, two teenagers from different backgrounds, acquire superpowers while forming a romantic relationship. They soon realize that their powers work better when they are together, "but their feelings for each other make their already complicated world even more challenging."[1]

Cast and characters

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
1TBAGina Prince-Bythewood[2]Joe Pokaski[4]2018 (2018)[4]TBD

Production

Development

At San Diego Comic-Con International 2011, head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb announced the series Cloak & Dagger was in development at ABC Family. The series, which would be set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, would follow Cloak and Dagger as the two "find each other and realize that their powers both complement and complicate their lives."[5] In April 2016, the series received a straight-to-series order for Freeform, the new name of ABC Family, from ABC Signature Studios and Marvel Television, with the search for a showrunner underway.[1] The order consisted of 10 episodes.[6] By August 2016, Joe Pokaski had signed on to the series as showrunner and executive producer,[7][4][8] with Loeb and Jim Chory also serving as executive producers.[9][8]

Writing

Writing for Cloak & Dagger began by the end of August 2016,[7] with Pokaski re-writing his initial script that November.[4] When announcing the series, Freeform called it their "first venture into the Marvel Cinematic Universe", and described it as a "superhero love story", a premise that Variety called "a seamless fit for Freeform" given the channel's target audience of "Becomers" (the 14-34 age demographic).[1][10] Addressing this, Loeb said, "It’s a love story that happens to have characters that have always traditionally been in that age group. It’s not like we took something and made it into a [young adult fiction (YA)]. It speaks to a YA audience and is a YA property. Would I do Punisher on Freeform? I don’t think that’s going to connect the same way."[11]

Casting

In January 2017, it was announced that Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph had been cast as Tandy Bowen / Dagger and Tyrone Johnson / Cloak, respectively.[2] The following month, Andrea Roth was cast as Melissa Bowen, Tandy’s mother; Gloria Reuben and Miles Mussenden were cast as Tyrone's parents, Adina and Michael Johnson; and Carl Lundstedt, James Saito, and J.D. Evermore were cast as Liam, Bernard Sanjo, and Connors, respectively.[3]

Filming

Filming for the series had begun by February 8, 2017 in New Orleans,[12][13] under the working title Shadows.[14] In December 2016, Disney planned to spend $11.2 million, of a total $42 million budget for the first season of the show, in Louisiana, over an 86-day filming period.[13] Filming on the pilot episode wrapped on February 24, 2017.[15] Photography on the remainder of the first season resumed in New Orleans on July 24.[16] Filming locations included the Le Pavillon Hotel.[17]

Music

Mark Isham announced in May 2017 that he would compose the music for the series, having previously collaborated with the show's premiere director Gina Prince-Bythewood on the films The Secret Life of Bees and Beyond the Lights.[18] Isham described the series as "extremely character driven" and focused on the difficult childhoods of the title characters, so his score is "dark, but also young enough to keep up with the teenage cast."[19] The score is expected to have "a jazzy New Orleans flair."[20]

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

Freeform executive Karey Burke said in April 2017 that the series is "not particularly connected" to their other series New Warriors given "their tones are so wildly different", adding, "There are many degrees of separation with where they fall in the Marvel universe. But anything is possible with Marvel."[21] In July, Loeb said there were no plans to crossover, nor to crossover across networks with the similarly themed Marvel's Runaways on Hulu. He added that Marvel wanted the series to find its footing before further connecting with other elements of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying "You'll see things that comment on each other; we try to touch base wherever we can... things that are happening in L.A. [where Runaways is set] are not exactly going to be affecting what's happening in New Orleans... It's being aware of it and trying to find a way for it to be able to discuss in a way that makes sense."[22]

Roxxon Corporation, a company featured throughout the MCU, is seen in the series.[23]

Release

Broadcast

Cloak & Dagger is scheduled to premiere on Freeform in 2018,[4] with the series consisting of 10 episodes.[6] It was originally intended to premiere in 2017 when it was first ordered to series.[24]

Marketing

The first trailer for the series was released on April 19, 2017, ahead of Freeform's 2017 upfront presentation.[25] The A.V. Club's William Hughes described the trailer as dark and moody, "the grimmest entry we've seen from Marvel TV to date." He felt that Joseph and Holt "look like they're game to capture the necessary 'You're the only person on Earth who gets me' vibe" that is central to the comic characters.[26] Ben Pearson at /Film said the trailer looked "dangerously cheesy", and as "over the top" as other Freeform shows. He added, "It also doesn't look very much like other Marvel shows. So if all else fails, at least this will be an experiment to see how well Marvel's products can transition within genres and play to different audiences."[27] Rob Cave for Comic Book Resources felt setting the series in New Orleans "gives audiences a glimpse of part of the Marvel Universe, and of America, that is seen on screen far less often than the mythical realms of Asgard or the sci-fi cities of Xandar Prime, let alone the over-exposed metropolises of New York and LA. The move also gives Cloak and Dagger's story its own space, far from the clutter and the clamor of the multitudes of superheroes already established across" the MCU.[23] In August 2017, exclusive clips from the series were shown at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.[28] The series will be a part of Freeform's "activation zone" at New York Comic Con 2017.[29]

Analysis

Upon announcement, Abraham Riesman of Vulture felt one of the show's potential strengths was the fact that Marvel had a unique opportunity to tell a story "without needing to appeal to any kind of rabid fanbase or honor any iconic stories, because the characters have neither," nor "any famous archnemeses" or "a widely read graphic novel" that fans would be expecting to see. He concluded saying, "Cloak & Dagger could be something unique and potentially lovely: an attempt to build a new bit of filmed superhero iconography (mostly) from the ground up. There’s so much to mine in this genre. It deals metaphorically with the burdens, risks, and liberations of power — and it has the storytelling freedoms offered by high-concept science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism."[30]

References

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