Paul Bettany Is Definitely Watching 'Agatha' Again, Readies For Vision Series Shoot
The actor, who began as JARVIS in 'Iron Man' is now gearing up for his second-starring series
Now that we’ve seen a little bit of everything from Marvel Television (and Animation)’s 2025 slate, including the first full acknowledgment of Wonder Man, attentions are certainly going to start shifting to the studio’s 2026 schedule as it begins to fill out. Currently there is one wholly new series readying to premiere and it…does not have an official name yet, though it was previously called Vision Quest, starring a returning Paul Bettany as the synthezoid revived by Project Cataract during WandaVision.
At the Los Angeles premiere of Here at AFI Fest on Friday, October 25, a film directed by Robert Zemeckis and also starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in what was touted as a Forrest Gump reunion, Bettany confirmed that the show will start shooting next year (in England) and “we’re cooking up something that I’m really excited about.” He then joked he couldn’t reveal more because “snitches end up in ditches.” Here, a single-shot film happening entirely in a single room, chronicling multiple generations of families, opened nationwide on November 1, with an opening weekend gross of $4.9 million, a fifth place finish.
The actor expressed his joy over Agatha All Along saying “I love it. I love it and I’m so proud of [showrunner] Jac Schaeffer and I am going to watch again because there’s so much for me to learn moving forward into my contribution,” Bettany said. Schaeffer, who created WandaVision to kick it off, originally developed the new Vision series, however left, explaining “Yeah, [Agatha All Along and Vision Quest] overlapped in a way that wasn’t tenable for me, and it was with a very heavy heart that I realized that it logistically wouldn’t work for me. But I am so looking forward to that show. I am just an enormous cheerleader for everybody involved, especially Paul.” Terry Matalas, previously of Star Trek: Picard and 12 Monkeys redeveloped the series and serves as showrunner. Currently two other actors are known to be in the cast. James Spader reprises his role as rogue AI Ultron, who nearly took Vision’s body as his own before the latter’s consciousness assumed it and would go on to destroy him, and Todd Stashwick plays a (likely SWORD-hired) assassin on Vision’s trail to retrieve the technology he possesses in his composition.
As for what joins it in 2026, currently two films are dated: Avengers: Doomsday and the fourth Spider-Man film, the first in his own new story phase. The closest thing on the TV side to being scheduled is that some of Wonder Man’s ten episodes should spill over into 2026 with that December 2025 premiere window. Elsewhere, Daredevil: Born Again might have its back nine here, X-Men ‘97 season 2 should be ready to go since it wasn’t on the 2025 roster, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man could be too. Marvel Studios has a very heavy 2025 in theaters and on Disney+ due to the dual strikes. This could make 2026 the first genuine year that’s distant enough from the strikes that we see some of that scale back and spread strategy that studio president Kevin Feige discussed in combatting the alleged “superhero fatigue”.
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter (1, 2), Box Office Mojo