The first was an unannounced show for ABC (just before the end of Marvel Television and the start of Marvel Studios’ Disney+ era) that would feature several female Marvel superheroes. It is also worth noting that throughout his career, Heinberg wrote for two Marvel IP projects that ultimately never saw the light of day due to the shifting tides of Marvel Studios. The first season of The Sandman was such a huge success for Netflix that Heinberg is already working on Season 2. Today, Heinberg is working as a showrunner and executive producer on The Sandman television series , an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic of the same name. Remember, he had written The Amazon’s Voice about her back in 1994! Talk about a full circle moment. He was brought on to write the screenplay for the acclaimed Wonder Woman (2017) due to his deep knowledge of Wonder Woman and passion for her character.

In 2016, Allan Heinberg took another leap, one that not many TV writers do - to the big screen. Then, he worked for the well-known TV production company Shondaland and wrote and produced several more popular TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and The Catch.ĭoes anyone else ever think about how Allan Heinberg was a co-executive producer / writer of The OC before he created Young Avengers? And how, once you know that, it’s incredibly obvious that Wiccan & Hulkling are basically his Seth Cohen / Ryan Atwood superhero AU slashfic? /HJZzqUy0YC Heinberg excelled at writing character-driven stories with a strong emotional undercurrent. Some of the shows he wrote on over the next decade included The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C. In 1994, he even wrote a play called The Amazon’s Voice about a writer who gets the chance to adapt the story of Wonder Woman as a cartoon.

Allan Heinberg started his career acting in and writing off-Broadway plays in New York City shortly after he graduated from Yale. Why? To start, let’s go back in time to 1989. A big fan of Young Avengers and creator Allan Heinberg makes a powerful and persuasive case in an essay over at Medium about why Marvel Studios head Kevin Fiege should hire him for the eventual cinematic outing of Marvel Comics’ premiere teen team.

Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg