While Marvel Studios has captivated fans with the latest Doomsday teasers, Marvel Television has dropped the first taste of its next series. Ringing in the new year, Marvel released the first full trailer for Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman, Candyman) and Sir Ben Kingsley. View the new clip below.
Abdul-Mateen II joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Simon Williams, an aspiring actor yearning to land the once-in-a-lifetime role in a new superhero film from an acclaimed Oscar-winning director. To succeed, he will gain the mentorship of Kinglsey’s Trevor Slattery, the actor known for masquerading as The Mandarin. Kingsley first portrayed the role in Iron Man 3 and again in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. As Williams inches closer to the taste of success, his ability to guard a super secret becomes more difficult.
First announced in 2022, Wonder Man‘s journey to the screen has been anything but wonderful. Movement on the series halted due to the WGA strike the next year. And once production began, the cast and crew suffered loss when an employee died in a non-filming accident. The series finally wrapped filming in June 2024.
Abdul-Mateen II and Kingsley are joined by a supporting cast of Arian Moayed (Succession, Nobody Wants This), X Mayo (American Auto, The Blackening), Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness, Superman), Demetrius Grosse (Swagger, Justified), and Lauren Glazier (The Chicago 8, Class).
Destin Daniel Cretton (Tokyo Vice, American Born Chinese) and writer Andrew Guest (Suburgatory, Hawkeye) created the series, with Cretton set to direct the first two episodes. Other directors on the series include James Ponsoldt (The Circle, Shrinking), Tiffany Johnson (How to Die Alone, Black Monday), and Stella Meghie (The Photograph, Minx).
Additional writers include Paul Welsh (Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, Mack & Rita), Madeline Walter (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cold War), Zeke Nicholson (Loot, While You Were Breeding), Anayat Fakhraie (The Night Agent, Orphan Black: Echoes), Roja Gashtili (Areh Areh, Rita Mahoubian Is Not A Terrorist), Julia Lerman (Mr. Corman, The Last Shift), and Kira Talise (Killing It, Insecure).
Executive producers included Kevin Feige (Iron Man, Thor 2), Brad Winderbaum (Loki 2, X-Men ’97), Cretton, Guest, Louis D’Esposito (Iron Heart, Daredevil: Born Again), Jonathan Schwartz (Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy), and Stephen Broussard (Doctor Strange, Echo). Co-executive producers are Trevor Waterson (Jurassic World, Ms. Marvel), Jennifer L. Booth (Matlock, Another Simple Favor), and Brian Gay (Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Panther).
Wonder Man‘s eight episodes will be released on Tuesday, January 27, only on Disney+.