'WandaVision' Spinoff Formerly Known As 'Vision Quest' A Go At Disney+; Gets Terry Matalas As Showrunner
'WandaVision' Spinoff Formerly Known As 'Vision Quest' A Go At Disney+; Gets Terry Matalas As Showrunner
The currently untitled series run by the recent 'Star Trek: Picard' showrunner will premiere in 2026
Now this is how to get chatter racked. Marvel Studios has set a 2026 premiere for a WandaVision spinoff on Disney+ starring Paul Bettany reprising his role as the recently-resurrected Vision. When the series was first reported to be in development in October 2022, it was known as Vision Quest, and now comes from the reformed Marvel Television. It has brought on Terry Matalas, most recently the showrunner of the latter two seasons of Star Trek: Picard, to steer this series.
While the series seemingly no longer has the title it was initially reported with, it still has the same premise (apparently). See, Vision was rebuilt and resurrected in a ghost white android body by S.W.O.R.D. as part of Project Cataract with zero memories of his past life, ordered to go after Wanda to stop her in all her power and the Vision she had conjured in her grief while constructing Westview. That Vision had scanned and enlightened him, so he flew off to resolve the internal issues this brings and realize a new purpose, while the construct was erased from existence with everything else created with the Hex.
Matalas’s Picard work, especially the third and final season’s grander and widely-praised The Next Generation reunion, impressed Marvel Studios’s top executives. President Kevin Feige is an unabashed Trekkie who appeared with Matalas on a lengthy episode of the Inglorious Treksperts podcast. It is the studio’s first new live-action series pickup in almost two years, following an extensive methodology change in creating television series. As previously reported, they shifted from applying how they do films to television, hiring head writers to create predetermined and usually previously announced shows, but having the directors and creative executives be the ones with most of the leadership responsibilities. Now, it’s a more traditional approach to TV, with lengthier development periods and hiring writer-producers as showrunners, with this being the first wholly new project to get such treatment.
The series was originally overseen by WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer, but ended up shifting over to the show’s first spinoff, Agatha All Along, which premieres in September. Variety calls the Schaeffer-headed era an “earlier version” despite reporting the same plot as had been since development was first reported. Matalas’s previous Trek work includes writing for Star Trek: Enterprise, and outside of Trek creator and showrunner for Syfy’s 12 Monkeys series, which ran for four seasons, executive producer and showrunner of the MacGyver reboot’s fourth season and writer for Nightflyers, Nikita, and Terra Nova.
Source: Variety