Marvel’s next Disney+ gamble may leave the capes at home. Zodiac, a newly announced live-action series, is shaping up as a globe-spanning espionage thriller built around secrets, betrayals, and competing intelligence networks rather than a familiar superhero lead.
Marvel Television officially unveiled the project during its New York Comic Con presentation, confirming that filming is scheduled to begin in London in spring 2027 before the series arrives on Disney+ sometime in 2028. Brad Winderbaum described it as “a spy thriller” and said Marvel would begin casting within weeks, while keeping the plot deliberately classified. Marvel’s official announcement confirms the production window and release platform.
Early details from Knight Edge Media, first reported in wider coverage by ComicBook.com, point to a darker British political thriller with echoes of The Americans. Marvel is reportedly seeking three principal British performers—two men and one woman—for characters created specifically for the series, rather than obvious adaptations of established comic-book heroes.
That focus on new characters does not mean Zodiac will be disconnected from the MCU. The project’s logo contains a modified S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem, and the circular design inside its “O” has prompted speculation about the Great Wheel from Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Warriors. In the comics, the Great Wheel is a clandestine alliance of intelligence figures associated with organizations including S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, Leviathan, and the Hand. The logo theory remains unconfirmed, but it offers a tantalizing explanation for how Marvel could bring several of its spy corners together.
The MCU already has the ingredients for that crossover. Nick Fury remains Marvel’s most obvious connective tissue, while Everett Ross has represented the CIA and Sonya Falsworth has emerged as one of the more compelling intelligence figures in Secret Invasion. Valentina Allegra de Fontaine adds another layer of covert power politics through her links to the CIA and the emerging Thunderbolts* operation. None of those characters has been announced for Zodiac, but the premise would give Marvel a natural place to revisit them without turning every episode into a conventional superhero team-up.
Winderbaum’s description to The Playlist—an “insane cast of characters” caught in international secrets, loyalty tests, and betrayals—also suggests a broader format than a single-location spy drama. Early comparisons to The X-Files hint at individual cases feeding into a larger conspiracy, while the planned London production could give Marvel’s British intelligence mythology a more substantial role.
For now, Marvel is revealing just enough to make the logo do the talking. With no showrunner, cast, or full story announced, the Great Wheel connection remains a fan theory rather than confirmed canon. But if Zodiac follows through on its espionage premise, it could become Marvel Television’s most ambitious attempt yet to turn the MCU’s scattered spy agencies into one interconnected conspiracy—without requiring a “Big Potato” hero to save the world every week.
