Disney has been open about having a new vision for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which we’ve today learned includes a new Vision series starring Paul Bettany.
The Disney+ show will see Bettany reprise the role he originated in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and last played in 2021’s WandaVision. However (spoilers if you missed the MCU’s first Disney+ show), the Vision in the majority of WandaVision episodes was the memory of Wanda (Elizabeth Olson) made manifest by her hex powers as she tried to manage her grief. The “real” Vision had been killed during Avengers: Endgame, and was being rebuilt by extra-governmental agency S.W.O.R.D. He was resurrected with a new white form and no memory of being an Avenger until the Hex Vision restored his memory, causing White Vision to flee as he processed his newly restored history.
Presumably, that’s where this new Vision series will pick up. It will fall to showrunner Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard) to figure out where the character goes from there. A writers room reportedly opened this week (via The Hollywood Reporter), with a streaming target of 2026.
Rumors spun awhile back that a Vision-centric TV series called Vision Quest would heavily feature the Young Avengers characters (Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop/Hawkeye, Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel). This makes sense to comic fans, as the “Vision Quest” storyline introduced White Vision, and his children with Wanda, Billy and Tommy, become the Young Avengers Wiccan and Speed.
It’s worth noting Marvel is also producing a Wonder Man Disney+ series with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the title role. In the comics, it’s Wonder Man’s brain patterns that get mapped onto Vision to give him a human personality. Although this was changed to the Mind Stone and Tony Stark’s JARVIS program in the MCU, the fact that a Wonder Man and a Vision series are in the works simultaneously could bode a connection.
Whatever it ends up being, the Vision show becomes the second WandaVision spin-off, as the prequel Agatha All Along centered on Kathryn Hahn’s character is set for a September 18th, 2024 release. Marvel also has Daredevil: Born Again and the long-in-the-works Ironheart set for 2025, all of which are set to be released under the revived Marvel Television banner. There’s also the Marvel Animation series Eyes of Wakanda and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, as well as the Nic Cage-led Spider-Man: Noir live-action show set in Sony’s Spider-verse in the works at Prime Video.
