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This is the TV special directorial debut of Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino. Giacchino had previously written the scores for Doctor Strange (2016) and the Jon Watts-directed Spider-Man trilogy for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was a co-composer on Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
In the comic books, Werewolf by Night and Man-Thing were members of the original Legion of Monsters, along with Morbius and Ghost Rider.
While this is the first on-screen appearance of Ted Sallis/Man-Thing in the MCU, a sculpture of his face was carved into the Grandmaster's palace as seen in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).
Heather Quinn and Peter Cameron co-wrote the screenplay, from a story by Quinn. Quinn previously wrote for the Marvel Studios Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021) and Cameron wrote for WandaVision (2021) and Moon Knight (2022). Quinn was asked to pitch for the special while she was working on the set of Hawkeye in early 2021. She worked closely with Giacchino to craft the story of the special.
This is the first Marvel Studios project to be given an MA15+ classification in Australia.
Man-Thing debuted in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), two months before DC's very similar character Swamp Thing in House of Secrets #92 (Jul. 1971). Man-Thing co-creator Roy Thomas recalled, "Gerry [Conway, co-creator of Man-Thing] and I thought that, unconsciously, the origin in Swamp Thing #1 was a bit too similar to the origin of Man-Thing a year-and-a-half earlier. There was vague talk at the time around Marvel of legal action, but it was never really pursued. I don't know if any letters even changed hands between Marvel and DC. [...] We weren't happy with the situation over the Swamp Thing #1 origin, but we figured it was an accident. Gerry was rooming with Len [Wein, co-creator of Swamp Thing] at the time and tried to talk him into changing the Swamp Thing's origin. Len didn't see the similarities, so he went ahead with what he was going to do. The two characters [di]verged off after that origin, so it didn't make much difference, anyway." Both characters were reminiscent of the Heap, another swamp monster character that debuted decades prior, in Air Fighters #3 (Dec. 1942), published by Hillman Periodicals.
Kirk R. Thatcher (Jovan) previously appeared in the MCU as Punk on Street in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). This was a reference to his role as Punk on Bus in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), a character he later reprised in Watcher (2022).
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