The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to experience another age of Ultron. According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Spader (The Blacklist, Boston Legal) is set to reprise his role as the Avengers villain in an upcoming Vision series for Disney+.
The new WandaVision spinoff, commonly referred to by fans as Vision Quest, will follow the Scarlet Witch’s android lover Vision, played by Paul Bettany (Legion, The Da Vinci Code), after the events of Marvel Studio’s first television series. After being destroyed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, rebuilt by the government agency known as S.W.O.R.D., and getting his memories restored inside Wanda Maximoff’s magic hex, Vision is now left wandering the MCU and searching for a new purpose in life.
Besides Bettany, Spader is the first actor to be announced for the series. His character, Ultron, is known by Marvel fans as the big bad of 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Ultron was originally created by Tony Stark to act as a defense program for the Avengers, but like the many fictional artificial intelligences before him, he turned evil and plotted to destroy the human race. Vision seemingly destroyed him at the end of the movie, so for now, it is unclear how he will return and if his motivations stay the same.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will serve as the third part of trilogy starting with WandaVision and continuing with Agatha All Along, the spinoff series starring Kathryn Hahn (Tiny Beautiful Things, Mrs. Fletcher), which debuts on Disney+ on September 18. Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard, MacGyver) has been brought on as showrunner, and filming is expected to begin in England in early 2025.
No release date has been announced, but with most of Marvel’s upcoming projects set to release in 2025, it is likely that the show will be announced as part of the studio’s 2026 roadmap.