For a few hours, it looked like one of Marvel’s most delayed projects was finally back on track. Reports spread quickly this week that Michael Waldron, the creator of Loki and co-writer of Avengers: Doomsday, had been attached to write Marvel Television’s long gestating Nova series. Marvel Studios has now shot the story down.
A WGA Listing Sparked The Frenzy
The reports originated from the Writers Guild of America West directory, where Waldron’s television employment history briefly listed Nova as a drama series for the 2026 to 2027 season, sitting right alongside his credits on Loki, Chad Powers, and Rick and Morty. Outlets across the entertainment press ran with the listing as confirmation that the shelved project had been revived with one of Marvel’s most trusted writers aboard.
Marvel Studios has since confirmed that Waldron is not working on Nova after all, per an update from ComicBookMovie, leaving the project’s actual status as murky as ever.
Nova’s Long Road To Nowhere
Richard Rider’s road to the MCU has been a bumpy one. Kevin Feige first flagged the character’s potential back in 2018, and Marvel attached Moon Knight writer Sabir Pirzada to a Nova project in 2022 before it was redeveloped as a Disney+ series. Criminal Minds veteran Ed Bernero later took over as writer and showrunner, but the show was among several Marvel Television projects put on pause in early 2025 as the studio pivoted toward multi-season series like Daredevil: Born Again and away from movie-adjacent one-offs.
Waldron, for his part, has publicly said he would love to write Nova, even floating his Chad Powers collaborator Glen Powell for the lead role. For now, though, the human rocket remains grounded. Marvel’s animation side is having a much smoother week, with X-Men ’97 reviving Kang the Conqueror in its acclaimed second season.
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