Marvel supported Wonder Man despite bad test screenings, but it "almost didn’t survive" the big MCU Disney Plus strategy shift: "I just held on and hoped and prayed"

Wonder Man showrunner Andrew Guest says it was a bumpy road to get the Marvel Disney Plus series made.

“[There were] several moments where we almost didn’t survive, I can tell you,” Guest said on The Watch podcast. “We were sort of one of the last projects in the door of the previous iteration of the Marvel Disney Plus experiment, where they were saying yes to many things… which is a nice place to be until suddenly you can’t. There was a period during our writing where many things at Marvel were looked at sort of through a new critical lens of what we can pare down, and we were definitely one of those things that was taken off their board for a moment there. The producers who were part of our project fought like hell to convince people this is something worth continuing with.”