Marvel Developing 'Wonder Man' Series for Disney+
Wonder Man is the latest Marvel superhero to get the screen treatment.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has teamed up with Andrew Guest, a writer-producer on comedies such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community, to tackle a live-action series featuring the longtime Marvel character.
Development for what is being titled Wonder Man is in the early stages, but if things crackle, cameras could be rolling in 2023.
Wonder Man, real name Simon Williams, first appeared in Avengers #9 of August, 1964. Originally the character was an industrialist rival to Tony Stark, and was recruited by Baron Zemo to the early supervillain group Masters of Evil. Zemo gave Williams “ionic energy” powers that include superhuman strength, stamina, and invulnerability, and flight through the use of a jetpack. He turned hero soon after his brief affiliation with Zemo’s group.
Wonder Man’s identity is publicly known; Williams is fabulously wealthy, and he supplements his lifestyle by working as a Hollywood stuntman. Both character traits seem like areas a TV show would explore.
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Ben Kingsley to Reprise MCU Role in ‘Wonder Man’ at Disney+Ben Kingsley is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Oscar winner will reprise his role as actor Trevor Slattery in Marvel’s
Wonder Man project at Disney+, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Marvel doesn’t comment on development.
The potential series, which THR revealed was in development in June, focuses on one of Marvel’s oldest characters, Simon Williams/Wonder Man.
Wonder Man will mark Kingsley’s fourth appearance in the MCU, following scene-stealing turns in 2013’s
Iron Man 3, a follow-up short film and last year’s
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The latter’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton, is co-creator and executive producer of Wonder Man, along with head writer Andrew Guest (Brooklyn Nine-Nine).
Kingsley’s Slattery is an actor hired to portray villain The Mandarin in
Iron Man 3. He then appeared in the 2014 Marvel short
All Hail the King, where he was broken out of prison by a member of the Ten Rings organization before turning up again in
Shang-Chi.
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