One of the more unusual projects currently in development at Marvel is Marvel's M.O.D.O.Kfeaturing the big-faced villain in an animated series set to launch on Hulu. During a recent set of interview for the comedy show AP Bio, Patton Oswalt, who will be voicing M.O.D.O.K., confirmed that the release date is coming up fairly soon. According to the star, the show's first season is on track to debut early next year.

It's been quite a wait for this one, so there are likely many people who haven't heard much about the project. For those out of the loop, Hulu has quite an interesting description. "In 'Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.,' the megalomaniacal supervillain M.O.D.O.K. (Patton 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!"

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The show is set to be animated in stop-motion, which explains the lengthy production time. Though lots of delays and push backs have been happening as of late, Oswalt insists that the show will be available sooner rather than later.  “The episodes have been written. They’ve been recorded. Now they’re being animated. And because we committed very hard to the stop-motion aspect to it and we’re really packing every frame with crazy detail. It’s looking like it’ll be early next year, but I don’t know the exact date yet.”

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. is being animated by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the same company responsible for Robot Chicken. Oswalt also confirmed that he had recently done a music pass on the show's fourth episode, and that everything was moving along smoothly. So it would seem that Marvel fans can set their calendars for early 2021 with some sense of confidence that it will actually come through for them. Of course, nothing is guaranteed in the age of the Coronavirus, but hey, it's good to have hope.

Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. will hit Hulu at some point early 2021.

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Source: Collider