The Invincible movie and animated show “can exist and complement each other,” says Robert Kirkman.
“That is still very much in development.
That hasn’t changed.

‘Invincible’.Amazon Studios
“But we’ve been fortunate enough to have a two-track plan with Invincible.
So, those two things are still very much happening concurrently, which is somewhat weird, I guess.
But there’ve been Spider-Man animated series and Spider-Man movies at the same time.
So, I think we’re in good company.”
Updates since then have been few and far between, and eventually Amazonannouncedit would premiere an animatedInvincibleseries.
Now, we know both projects are separate takes on the Skybound and Images comics.
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Kirkman executive produces the series with Simon Racioppa, David Alpert, and Catherine Winder.
“It’s a great way for us to stand apart in a crowded landscape.
But more than that, I think that it allows us to more properly adapt theInvinciblecomic.
There’s no way that we could keep this level of insanity up in live-action.
We would have to do a tremendous amount of bottle episodes to level it all out.”
That explains why the live-action adaptation is taking so long.