Marvel's Cloak and Dagger Trailer Arrives

Cloak and Dagger has long seemed like a natural fit for TV. With the rise of Marvel Netflix series like Daredeviland Jessica Jones, the story about a pair of teenage runaways who find themselves granted superpowers after they're injected with some bizarre drugs against their will, would have seemed like a perfect fit for the Hell's Kitchen corner of the Marvel Universe.

A Cloak and Dagger TV series is coming to Freeform. Expect the romance between Ty "Cloak" Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) and Tandy "Dagger" Bowen (Olivia Holt) to take a prominent role in this. In fact, since this is coming to the youth-centric Freeform network, it makes sense that this would have something of a YA approach.

Check out the first trailer:

Other than that big shout out to designated Marvel evil corporation Roxxon at the end there, this doesn't appear to be too overtly "Marvel." This isn't a bad thing, as this should be a more personal story anyway.

"It’s a love story that happens to have characters that have always traditionally been in that age group,” Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb said at the TCAs back in August (via SlashFilm). “It’s not like we took something and made it into a YA. It speaks to a YA audience and is a YA property. Would I do Punisher on Freeform? I don’t think that’s going to connect the same way.”

Cloak and Dagger Release Date

Freeform is taking Cloak and Dagger straight to series. Expect this one to arrive in Winter of 2018, possibly alongside Freeform's New Warriors TV series.

Cloak and Dagger were created by Bill Mantlo and Ed Hannigan, and first appeared in 1982's Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #64. They were quickly spun off into a critically acclaimed limited series of their own, by Mantlo and artists Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin. They more recently appeared in Marvel's Runaways, another Marvel teen series that is on its way to TV, courtesy of Hulu.

We'll update this article with more information as it becomes available.