With mere weeks to go until the release of Marvel’s Runaways, we finally have our first good look at the new series.
Hulu’s Runaways has its first full trailer, featuring a magic staff and a skittish velociraptor
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The first three episodes of Hulu’s long-awaited TV adaptation of the popular comic will drop on November 21. (The comic, created and originally written by Brian K. Vaughn, debuted in 2003.) But until then, this trailer gives a sense of how the TV show, helmed by Gossip Girl masterminds Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, will look and feel.
Predictably enough, the vibe is very in line with what Savage and Schwartz have done over at The CW, with an assortment of good-looking teens getting in over their heads as wicked adults enact their schemes. But Runaways kicks all that up a notch, because these teens have powers (and/or gadgets that give them powers), and those wicked adults are their supervillain parents.
In the trailer, we get to see not only these plot basics — as a brief teaser earlier this month showed — but more of the teens discovering who they really are. We get to see Nico (Lyrica Okano) discover the staff she’ll eventually wield as something like a magic wand as her powers grow. We get to see younger Runaway Molly (Allegra Acosta), wearing a pink pussy hat instead of the pink beanie of the comics, realize she’s much stronger than her tiny frame suggests. We get to see Karolina (Virginia Gardner) glow phosphorescent. We even get to see Chase (Gregg Sulkin) and Gert (Ariela Barer) in wide-eyed awe as they get their first glimpses of the velociraptor (Old Lace!) that will become so important to them as the series continues.
Inevitably, this adaptation won’t satisfy all fans of The Runaways, especially since the wait for someone, anyone, to adapt the story to the screen has been so long. But for now, let’s hold out hope that Hulu’s Runaways will stay faithful to the spirit of the source material while taking advantage of getting to unfold this story onscreen.
The first three episodes of Marvel’s Runaways premiere on November 21. Hulu will then release additional episodes on Tuesdays.
