Marvel’s ‘She-Hulk’ and ‘Moon Knight’ Shows Hire Writers, Including One Who Wrote the ‘Rick and Morty’ Episode “Pickle Rick”

Posted on Friday, November 8th, 2019 by Ben Pearson

She-Hulk and Moon Knight writers

Earlier this year at Disney’s D23 Expo, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige took the stage and revealed that several new MCU shows were heading to Disney+. Among them were She-Hulk and Moon Knight, which will bring some relatively obscure Marvel characters to the forefront. We hadn’t heard any updates about either of those projects since August, but that changed today: new reports reveal that Marvel has hired writers to develop and lead the writing teams for each of those shows. Jessica Gao and Jeremy Slater have been hired to oversee She-Hulk and Moon Knight, respectively. Read more about these writers and their MCU shows below. Read More »

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Dan Harmon Lays Into Sexist ‘Rick and Morty’ Trolls For Harassing Female Writers

Posted on Friday, September 22nd, 2017 by Hoai-Tran Bui

Behind every powerful woman are legions of disgruntled male trolls trying to tear her down. It’s unfortunately a common sight on the internet: a female writer, social media personality, or women in the limelight find themselves subject to increasingly violent threats for a misspoken statement or badly-received work.

It’s even worse when it’s in a traditionally male sphere, like the case of Rick and Morty‘s new female writers. Jane Becker and Jessica Gao were part of a group of four female writers hired onto Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim show in season 3 — which until then had an all-male writers’ room. But this shift in the status quo led some Rick and Morty fans to lash out aggressively against Becker and Gao, harassing them on Twitter and doxxing them (publicly revealing their private information). And that has earned them the wrath of Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon.