Two weeks ago, Disney boss Bob Iger said that Marvel was going to start making fewer shows and movies. According to Variety, this move is as part of an “overall strategy to reduce output and focus on quality.”
So it’s a bit surprising that the first new Marvel show to be announced is… a Vision series, created by Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas.
This is not the same Vision series that was announced in 2022. At that time, Deadline reported, WandaVision’s Jac Schaeffer was working on a series called Vision Quest, which was about Vision “trying to regain his memory and humanity.” According to Variety, Schaeffer shifted her attention to the Agatha Harkness spinoff, which is currently called Agatha All Along and set to premiere in September.
If you cast your mind back years and years, you may recall that Vision (Paul Bettany) was murdered by Thanos in Infinity War. In WandaVision, he was resurrected twice: Once through Wanda’s magic and grief, and once as a robot. The two had a little showdown and then became one, the Magic Vision fading from existence, because Wanda isn’t allowed to have anything nice, ever, since she made the “wrong” choice once and we can’t ever possibly forgive her for that.
Anyone who saw Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness knows what happened to Wanda (we did not see a body, but a Marvel book confirmed that she died). And now we’ll find out the answer to the burning question of what rebuilt, re-memoried, creepy all-white Vision has been doing since the WandaVision finale.
This new series is, as Variety notes, “Marvel’s first new live-action series pickup in almost two years.” Other than the return of Bettany, no casting has been announced. The show is expected to arrive in 2026.
Those of us hoping that Matalas would get to make Star Trek Legacy, will, I suppose, just keep hoping.
