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Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige this week offered the first official update in a minute on the Wonder Man TV series, which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and reportedly recently wrapped filming.
First introduced in comics in 1964, Wonder Man has been depicted as a gifted engineer who gains superhuman abilities and becomes an enemy of the Avengers, though he has also fought alongside the team of Marvel heroes in multiple capacities.
Though specific details about the live-action Disney+ series, officially greenlit in October 2022, remain under wraps, Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Andrew Guest (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community) developed it, with Guest serving as head writer.
In addition to Abdul-Mateen II filling the title role (aka Simon Williams), the cast includes Demetrius Grosse, (Fear the Walking Dead) as Simon’s brother Eric, while Ben Kingsley is reportedly reprising his role as Trevor Slattery, the character he played on the big screen in both Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi.
As a guest on the Official Marvel Podcast this week (press play above for audio), Feige was asked what keeps him inspired at a company that released its first comic some 85 years ago. The Marvel Studios boss enthused about “continuing to try new storylines and taking characters to new places.
“Sometimes they’ll hit, sometimes they won’t,” he acknowledged, “but if you stop trying, that is when you atrophy and the whole thing falls in on itself.”
Offered up as an example of “new,” Feige said, “We have a show coming up that we’ve talked very little about called Wonder Man, that I won’t talk much about today either except to say it’s extremely different than anything we’ve done before.”
At a company that has been around for so long, with a film studio that has churned out so many live-action projects for screens both big and small in recent decades, “It’s very exciting,” Feige said, “to still be able to do new things.”
Marvel’s atypically quiet live-action TV slate resumes this September with the Kathryn Hahn-led Agatha All Along, to be followed by Daredevil: Born Again (in March 2025) and Ironheart (likely in 2025).
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Wonder Man has always been one of my favourite West Coast Avengers and I’m really looking forward to this. Will there be a Vision connection????
Especially if there’s full frontal!
does he still have that red jacket?
theres nothing ‘extremely different’ about Disney or Amazon replacing white characters with black characters. they have no respect for american culture.
You dont have respect for Black Culture so why should we have respect for American Culture…
Black people are part of American culture, you absolute plunger.
Regardless of the ignorance and hate filled nonsense of your comment…I doubt Feige was referring to the casting of a very talented actor as Wonder Man when he said different. He was referring to the content of the show itself. Anyone with an average elementary school reading comprehension would have understood that.
Hey TV Line – sometimes my comments don’t get posted, could we perhaps restrict the number of straight up racists posts that go through as well? It would be nice. (and no people who can’t read the first amendment, that would not be a violation of the first amendment. Stop screaming free speech when you don’t actually know where and when it applies)
PS Pop Corn – American Culture has always been an evolving melting pot. It was created that way. Your inability to recognize that is a shame because you’re going to miss out on so much due to your complete and total ignorance and racism that you feel free to express anonymously behind your computer screen that i bet you’d never spout in public in front of average people (i mean at your meetings with the other white sheets I’m sure you’re a brave person)
That illustrates your ignorance and lack of education. It’s clear you never read the comics. There’s nothing about his character whatsoever that requires him to be white. He’s not a real person. He’s fictional. He’s never existed as anything other than ink on a page. So your comment simply illustrates the fact that you are a foolish juvenile ignorant manbaby bigot with the ability to type.