“Eyes of Wakanda,” an animated spin-off from the “Black Panther’” franchise, had its first episode shown at a panel at France’s Annecy Animation Festival on Monday.
Director Todd Harris introduced the episode, titled “Into the Lion’s Den,” ahead of a Q&A session.
The episode, the first of four in the series, is set in 1260 B.C., and follows a Wakandan secret agent, a disgraced former Dora Milaje named Noni (played by Winnie Harlow), as she pursues a man by the moniker of ‘Lion’ (Cress Williams). Lion has defected from the Wakandan guard in order to run a band of pirates, and has stolen technology from Wakanda in order to found his own kingdom.
Each of the 30-minute episode, produced by the studio Axis Animation, will take place across different time periods spanning centuries, following different artefacts taken, in what director Todd Harris calls an “anthology adjacent” format. He also teased some form of familiar Marvel characters making appearances: “There will be an Iron Fist in here, and not the Iron Fist you expect.”
More to come.
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