Marvel's Rook

Marvel's Rookis planned American television series, based own a new marvel character. It will produced by Marvel Television and air on the NBC network, will be  set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sharing continuity with the films in that franchise. A pilot, to be written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, and directed by Joss Whedon, has been given the green-light.

Production
On August 31, 2012, The Walt Disney Company announced that it was purchasing Marvel Entertaniment for about $4 billion. Disney CEO Bob Iger said on conference call that Disney intended to incorpate the Marvel properties across all of its media platforms, including television. In June 2011 Marvel announced that it had hired Jeph Loeb as president of Marvel Television, a newly created division of Marvel Enterainment. In an interview the day after his appointment, Loeb stated that Marvel intended to continue producing animated televison series, and that "there's a brand new division that we'll do with live action, where we're working in partnership with NBC to find the right properties, the right characters and develop them. To start, we will be exploring the one-hour drama field similar to shows that I mentioned that I've worked on, Like Smallville and Lost.