Marvel’s “VisionQuest” To Tackle Daddy Issues

Later this year comes “VisionQuest,” a new Marvel Studios series that serves as something of a trilogy capper following both “WandaVision” and “Agatha All Along”.

Here, the eight-episode series sees Paul Bettany reprise his role as the super-powered, all-white reconstructed android Vision as he attempts to regain his memory and sense of identity.

Packed with a strong cast, one of the big drawing elements of the show is that writer/producer Terry Matalas, who scored raves for his work as showrunner on the final season of “Star Trek: Picard,” takes on showrunner duties here in his first outing for Marvel.

Speaking on the Official Marvel Podcast, Marvel exec Brad Winderbaum discussed the series and revealed new details about the show:

“VisionQuest is so rewarding for fans of the WandaVision trilogy, but also fans of the MCU, especially the Infinity Saga. What’s amazing about Terry Matalas is [it’s] like talking to someone who grew up at Marvel. The guy knows the lore as well as any of the producers here.

He manages a way to pull from the MCU mythology in such clever ways that don’t feel like homework, don’t feel like old ideas that you have to remember, but feel like fresh ideas that just pull from the same rich well of concepts that the universe has kind of put in the toy box for us.

Agatha, in many ways, plays with themes of motherhood in a way that VisionQuest plays with themes of fatherhood. The entire trilogy is focused, in many ways, on parenthood as a concept.

[VisionQuest] is really about fathers and sons. And, specifically, about three generations of grandfather-father-son. Can a man who had an abusive father be a good father himself? It gets very emotional at times. And it’s exciting. It’s an exciting adventure.

When you see Vision kicking ass and you get all that Marvel fun and adventure, it’s all done on the backdrop of real human stakes and emotion, which makes the show feel very grand. It’s like an adrenaline rush, it’s emotional, and it really delivers on a lot of things that I hope people have come to expect from Marvel.”

James Spader, Todd Stashwick, Ruaridh Mollica, T’Nia Miller, Emily Hampshire, Orla Brady, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and James D’Arcy are among the stars of the show which is scheduled to debut on Disney+ in late 2026.

Winderbaum adds Marvel is also “actively developing the next ‘Zombie’ story”.