Marvel Developing ‘Nova’ Project With ‘Moon Knight’ Scribe Sabir Pirzada

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EXCLUSIVE: Richard Rider aka Nova looks to be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as sources tell Deadline Marvel is developing a Nova project with Sabir Pirzada on board to write.

It is unknown at this time whether this will be developed as a feature film or one of limited series for Disney+. As always Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will produce.Nova first appeared in an 1966 issue of Super Adventures was member of the intergalactic police force known as the Nova Corps for which he gained superhuman abilities including enhanced strength, flight and resistance to injury.

While the character didn’t have many run ins with some of the main figures of the current or past MCU, he did have some battles with the Skrulls, who have big parts in recent and upcoming Marvel projects like Captain Marvel and the limited series Secret Invasion.As for Pirzada, like so many scribes who land a high-profile Marvel project to develop, Pirzada came up through the studio’s writer community most recently helping in the writer’s room for the highly anticipated Moon Knight series that premieres on March 30 on Disney+.He is repped by 3 Arts and Gersh.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules