The main voice cast for the upcoming Marvel Zombies miniseries has been revealed by Disney+, and there's good news for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Many fan favorite actors from the MCU will be among the animated series' voice cast.
Disney+ has confirmed that the Marvel Zombies voice cast includes Awkwafina (Katy, Shang-Chi), David Harbour (Red Guardian, Thunderbolts*), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi, Shang-Chi), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff, WandaVision), Randall Park (Jimmy Woo, WandaVision), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova, Black Widow), Hailee Steinfeld (Kate Bishop, Hawkeye), Dominique Thorne (Riri Williams, Ironheart), and Iman Vellani (Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel). Also featured in the cast is Todd Williams, who voiced Rick Mason in the Spider-Man: Miles Morales video game.
This cast announcement makes it highly likely that fans will see the MCU alums reprise their roles and play animated versions of their live-action characters for the Marvel Zombies story, which continues from the events of the What If...? episode, "What If... Zombies?!" released in 2021. Marvel Zombies is set to make its debut on Oct. 3, 2025 on Disney+.
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Marvel Zombies will be the 16th television series in the MCU, and it will explore an alternate timeline in the multiverse where a group of survivors must fight former heroes and villains who have been turned into zombies, similar to the Marvel Comics series of the same name. Earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con, it was confirmed that some of the zombies making an appearance in the series will be Clint Barton / Hawkeye, Steve Rogers / Captain America, Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Eternals' Ikaris, and Black Panther's Okoye.
Disney's casting announcement indicates that other characters that will make an appearance in Marvel Zombies include Red Guardian, Shang-Chi and his friend Katy, Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch, Black Widow's Yelena Belova, Kate Bishop, Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, and Jimmy Woo. The series will feature the same animation style as the Disney+ What If...? series, with footage from Marvel Zombies shown during Marvel Studios Animation's D23 panel in August 2024.
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Marvel Zombies is based on the fifth episode of the What If...? television series, with the episode exploring how the events of the MCU films Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Infinity War would have been different had the Avengers become zombies and launched a worldwide apocalypse. The episode featured Tony Stark, Dr. Strange and Wong as zombies, with some of the survivor heroes including Peter Parker, Bucky Barnes, Okoye, and Happy Hogan. The episode ended with the survivors heading to Wakanda, unaware that a zombie version of Thanos had conquered the land and was wielding almost all the Infinity stones.
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A third and final season of Marvel's What If...? anthology series is set to premiere on Disney+ on Dec. 22. The new season will feature eight episodes, with one new episode releasing daily through Dec. 29. Episodes will feature many MCU fan-favorite characters, including Red Guardian, Agatha Harkness, Black Widow and Moon Knight. The season is considered to be part of Phase Five of the MCU, with Disney+'s marketing teasing the new season as giving fans "one final watch", a reference to the series narrator known as the Watcher who observes the multiverse without interfering with the events that occur.
Marvel Zombies will launch Oct. 3, 2025 on Disney+.
Source: Disney+
Re-imagines the Marvel universe as a new generation of heroes battle against an ever-spreading zombie scourge.
