Marvel's new Vision series is in the works with Paul Bettany set to reprise the synthezoid. On Wednesday, Variety reported the news, which also revealed that Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas will serve as showrunner. The untitled Disney+ series is set to premiere in 2026.
Bettany debuted as Tony Stark's A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Iron Man films before he played the rogue character before Ultron created a synthezoid body in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. With the power of the Mind Stone, Vision joined the Avengers in 2016's Captain America: Civil War until he was killed by Thanos in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War. After his death, he returned twice over in 2021's WandaVision series, as a spectral manifestation by his beloved, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), then as a rebuilt android with a ghost white look and no memory of his past life. Wanda restored ghost Vision's memories during his battle with the other Vision, and Wanda let her Vision fade from existence. The new series will take place after those events, as ghost Vision presumably explores his new purpose.
Matalas co-created SYFY's 12 Monkeys TV series and showran the second and third seasons of Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard. With him coming on board, this will be Marvel's first new live-action series pickup in almost two years. Previously, Marvel assigned most leadership duties to the directors and creative executives. Marvel's head of streaming, television, and animation Brad Winderbaum revealed to Variety that starting in 2022, Marvel Studios began to shift to a more "traditional approach" to television, with a longer development period and return to getting writer-producers on board to oversee the entire production as showrunners. Marvel Studios recently rebranded its live-action TV output to Marvel Television and reducing the amount of shows it makes to roughly two per year, down from as many as four.
There was an earlier version of the Vision series under the title Vision Quest, with WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer, but Schaeffer shifted plans to run a different WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along with Kathryn Hahn, scheduled to premiere this September.
