Marvel Plans to Bring In Showrunners for Its Disney+ Series
Marvel is planning to hire showrunners for its Disney+ series, according to a report from Collider. The news concerns how the shows are run behind the scenes rather than any single title, and it is framed as a step that has been a long time coming.
A showrunner is the person who oversees a series day to day, guiding its writing and overall creative direction across a season. Putting named showrunners in place would give each Disney+ series a clearer single point of creative leadership, in line with the way television series are traditionally structured.
The material available carries no names of anyone being hired, no specific series singled out, and no timetable for when the change would take effect. For now, the story is simply about structure: Marvel intends to staff its streaming series with showrunners, with any further details presumably to come through later announcements.