{"id":168468,"date":"2025-11-07T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:45:09","slug":"yahya-abdul-mateen-ii-really-wants-to-be-wonder-man-in-new-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168468\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahya Abdul-Mateen II really wants to be Wonder Man in new teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel\u2019s Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation Brad Winderbaum says we\u2019re in for a \u201cvery sincere, beautiful\u201d show when Wonder Man, which has an episode count of 8, reaches the Disney+ streaming service on\u00a0January 27th<\/strong>. (All episodes will be available to watch on that date.) We\u2019ve seen a teaser trailer<\/a> and a full trailer<\/a>, and now a new teaser has dropped online to show us a bit more of the show while we wait for January to come around. You can check it out in the embed above.<\/p>\n

Wonder Man<\/a>\u00a0focuses on one of\u00a0Marvel\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0oldest characters, as title character Simon Williams was introduced back in 1964, in the pages of\u00a0Avengers #9. \u201cHe began his comic book career as a villain but got reintroduced as a hero in the late 1970s. Wonder Man\u2019s civilian name is Simon Williams, and he was a founding member of the Los Angeles-based West Coast Avengers. As an actor and stuntman, Williams\u2019 look included wearing a turtleneck, a red jacket, and sunglasses. Wonder Man strongly relates to Marvel characters Vision and Wanda Maximoff\/Scarlet Witch. The trio shared several adventures, with Wonder Man and Vision thinking of each other as brothers in action. After Vision was dismantled, the villain-turned-hero developed intense feelings for Wanda.\u201d<\/p>\n

MSN<\/a>\u00a0noted that\u00a0Yahya Abdul-Mateen II<\/a>\u00a0(Candyman) stars and is joined in the cast by Ben Kingsley, who reprises his\u00a0Iron Man 3\u00a0and\u00a0Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u00a0role of actor Trevor Slattery; Demetrius Grosse, who plays Simon\u2019s brother, Eric Williams, an Avengers villain from the comics known as the Grim Reaper, and Ed Harris as Simon\u2019s agent, Neal Saroyan.\u00a0Shang-Chi\u00a0director Destin Daniel Cretton is a producer on the show, with Andrew Guest (Hawkeye) serving as the head writer.<\/p>\n

Several months ago, Winderbaum told\u00a0Collider<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Wonder Man\u00a0is \u201ca very new flavor for Marvel. It\u2019s straight from the minds of Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest. Honestly, it is one of my favorite things ever. I think it\u2019s the best show no one\u2019s ever seen, and I\u2019m very excited to see the audience reaction to it. I think it\u2019s a love letter to what we do as filmmakers. It\u2019s a love letter to acting as a profession, and it\u2019s a very sincere, kind of beautiful show.\u201d Winderbaum went on to say that the episode runtimes range from 20-something to 40-something minutes.<\/p>\n

Wonder Man seems to me like it\u2019s going to be fun, so I look forward to checking it out early next year. Will you be watching this show? Take a look at the new teaser, then let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation Brad Winderbaum says we\u2019re in for a \u201cvery sincere, beautiful\u201d show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[1887,18,117,19,17,1890,327,68256,96636],"class_list":{"0":"post-168468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-wonder-man","16":"tag-yahya-abdul-mateen-ii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115510137501837635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}