John Ridley's untitled Marvel TV project is still in development, with the American Crime creator honing the series with Marvel executives.

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The top-secret series was first revealed in 2015 , and supposedly was a reinvention of a Marvel character. Ridley assured IGN in 2016 that the project was still very much alive, and now offered a new update on the development while promoting American Crime at the 2017 winter TV Critics Association press tour."For myself and certainly for the folks at Marvel, there's been an explosion of storytelling in costumed heroes and comic book things. For us, we want to make sure we're doing something that sits in a very unique space," the 12 Years a Slave screenwriter explained to IGN of why it's still being retooled. "That's very important for me, and that's absolutely important for the people I'm working with there. I'm fortunate in the sense that I don't feel that I have to do things for the sake of doing things, and I'm very fortunate to be working with partners who have a level of patience in terms of that storytelling. I will say that we're continuing to work on it. I'm very, very excited about it."ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told Entertainment Weekly that Ridley is working on a rewrite of the script for Marvel, and that ABC has not yet seen a new version of it. Ridley explained to IGN that it's not that "anything didn't work the first time around," but that he is trying to make sure the series does something consumers of superhero stories haven't necessarily seen before."For me, it's always about bring perspectives that we're not witnessing. It's always about a level of storytelling, patience in storytelling. We're still making sure that when we can produce it, that I can give it my absolute full attention, because I do have a lot of things that are going on right now. Timing is everything," he said. "It's not like it's about being better than somebody else or doing something opposite of them just for the sake of being opposite, but even if this were the only project that were existing, is it representative? Is it unique in and of itself in where it lands in television, and is it something that I can stay with over the long haul? That's what's what I want to make sure that we can do."Ridley added that he hopes he can "bring it to people in the near term."Details on the project have been kept secret since its inception, and it's unclear which Marvel character it will focus on or where it will fit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All Ridley would say about how his series fits into Marvel's master plan is "it is a space that is not currently being filled."He also said that, like Guardians of the Galaxy and Jessica Jones felt like an expansion of what Marvel had done with superheroes, "the take we're working on is exceptionally unique. I am excited to do it because it is very different from American Crime, from Guerilla, from these things that live in a very real space. I hope the show is grounded, but I do hope it's fantastic."ABC is currently airing Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, and revealed that it is developing an Inhumans series in partnership with IMAX

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz