Disney Channel is getting ready to premiere it’s newest animated series – Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!
The upcoming Marvel show will premiere in 2022 with actress and singer Diamond White in the lead role Lunella Lafayette.
“•im a superhero 🥺ðŸ˜â€¢,” she captioned an announcement on her Instagram page.
Based on the Marvel comics, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur follows the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur. After Lunella accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city’s Lower East Side from danger.
Also joining the cast includes Alfre Woodard as Lunella’s grandmother, Mimi; Libe Barer as Lunella’s best friend and manager, Casey; Sasheer Zamata as Lunella’s mom, Adria; Jermaine Fowler as Lunella’s dad, James Jr.; Fred Tatasciore as the one-and-only Devil Dinosaur; and Gary Anthony Williams as Lunella’s grandfather, Pops.
Diamond is no stranger to voicing Disney characters! She has previously voiced Fuli on The Lion Guard, Holly on Phineas and Ferb, Ruby Hanshaw in Sofia the First. She’s also been seen on screen on the soap The Bold and the Beautiful, Empire, The Haunted Hathaways, Black-ish, Girl Meets World and Dear White People.
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is also executive produced by another Disney family member – Black-ish‘s Laurence Fishburne, through his Cinema Gypsy Productions. He will also have a recurring voice role on the show as The Beyonder, a curious and mischievous trickster.