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some spoilers in the article What If...? Director Bryan Andrews Mourns His Favorite Rejected Season 3 Pitches & Teases Marvel Zombies

Screen Rant: One thing I didn't know I needed was the Alexei and Bucky friendship, which feels like a prelude to what we might get in Thunderbolts*. Can you talk about those characters working together, and your thoughts on the Crimson Soldier run?

Bryan Andrews: It was so long because that episode was supposed to be in season 2, and it got moved to season 3 late in the game because there was another episode that got done early. Brad wanted to swap them out for a reason, and he was like, “It's going to be great.” Which is hilarious because now it's creating this weird serendipity with the Thunderbolts* coming up.
But back in the day, it was because they were working on Black Widow, and it was going to come out before season 2. Therefore, Red Guardian was totally available. And I think A.C. Bradley, our head writer at the time, just zeroed in on that and was like, “It's Midnight Run. It's buddy cop. It's all those genres rolled into one.” She could sink her teeth into it and, boy, did she. That script was awesome. It was fricking hilarious and so much fun.

David Harbour just chewed the hell out of that scenery, and so did Sebastian Stan, who did such a great job playing the straight man. The subtlety of his performance is really in there, and I just love it. Those guys are just really great together, and it was a hell of a lot of fun. We did it way early on, and now we’ve got this movie coming out where they're going to be together again. It's a really fantastic episode that turned out really well. Everyone did a great job on it.

The run was just because our awesome storyboard artists would draw Alexei with so much fun and character. We knew from the Black Widow movie what he was like, so they would just sink their teeth into it and push it and just be ridiculous. Then the animators would follow some of those awesome boards to the T. Our animation head, Scott Wright, would just also just get in there and play with it and have some fun with it.
Who can fully take credit for that hilarious run? I do not know, but I think it's a bit of a team effort, probably between our board artists, the head of animation, and a particular animator animating it. It was hilarious and a full collaboration.


ScreenRant: You mentioned other stories of What If…? that you guys still have on deck. Will we get to see those stories? Or were there stories that you weren't able to tell?

Bryan Andrews: Totally. There are tons. The thing is it's stories to Tell more like genres I wanted to explore. One of them was basically DnD meets Marvel. I wanted to do straight-up fantasy, and I had this idea where I wanted do a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, except you follow the characters who should not be on this campaign at all, who kind of Forrest Gump their way through it and end up being victorious in the end. It's all these C or D-level heroes and sidekicks, like Kurt from Scott Lang's criminal gang, and then maybe Darcy.

You get these people who should not be on a superhero adventure, but maybe they become superhoes by the end all with the tropes of a dungeon crawl. It could be so much fun. And there's a bunch of other ones.

We had a ton of episodes that we proposed have KISS in them because I've been a total fan since I was a child, and some of the other members on the team are too. When we submitted stories to Kevin this time, I think 6 out of 40 of them were KISS-centric in one regard or another – either major KISS or minor KISS. But he didn't choose any of those. I still think some of them would've been fricking hilarious, and one of them was truly a musical. It was basically a universal Battle of the Bands, with villains, heroes, and everyone. The whole universe is about “Who's the best band?” The judge was KISS, but Kevin's like, “I don't know… Maybe not for season 3.” In the future, maybe we’ll do it. Who knows?
 



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