New Disney+ Series: Wonder Man starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen

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Marvel Reveals First Wonder Man Footage & Confirms Six Shows For 2025

Six new shows in the MCU will be released in 2025, including Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Wonder Man.

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Here's What We Know About Marvel's Wonder Man, If You’re Wondering

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will play an actor-turned-superhero in the Disney+ adaptation of a deep-cut Marvel character.

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Here's What We Know About Marvel's Wonder Man, If You’re Wondering
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will play an actor-turned-superhero in the Disney+ adaptation of a deep-cut Marvel character.
By William Goodman
October 30, 2024
‘Wonder Man star Yahya AbdulMateen II
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Who the hell is Wonder Man? If you caught the teaser for Marvel's television slate that’s floating around the web today—which also included release dates for the miniseries Ironheart, the Daredevil semi-reboot Born Again, and the animated series Eyes of Wakanda and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man—there's a chance you're asking yourself that question (it certainly came up in the GQ Slack today.) Even by Marvel-diehard standards, this is a pretty deep-cut character, so there’s a good reason for hearty skepticism around this project.

Wonder Man, AKA Simon Williams, was created by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby, and first debuted 60 years ago this month (!) in The Avengers #9. In Marvel lore, he's initially a villain; Williams inherits a weapons factory after the death of his father, which puts him in competition with Tony Stark and Stark Industries. From there, Simon goes to jail after embezzling funds from his company. Blaming Stark, he cuts a deal with Baron Zemo and Enchantress to get superpowers and go after Iron Man. That story ends with Wonder Man seemingly dead; the character was then sidelined for a few years after Marvel's chief rival DC pointed out that they'd introduced a character by the same name in an issue of Superman one year earlier in 1963.

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Despite these complications, he soon resurfaced in the pages of Avengers and continued to appear there and in other Marvel titles over the years, often as a pawn of a few different villains (including Ultron, who in the comics copies Williams’ brain to create The Vision) before ending up on the side of good and becoming a founding member of the West Coast Avengers, where he ends up in a bit of a love triangle between Vision and the Scarlet Witch.

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But Williams' biggest defining characteristic in the comics, complicated backstory aside, is that in addition to being a superhero he's also an actor. Before the West Coast Avengers team takes shape, he's already on the ground in Los Angeles, having parlayed his work as a superpowered movie stuntman into a leading-man career. Based on the brief teaser footage we've seen from the Disney+ show, the series—helmed by Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton and Community's Andrew Guest—will lean into that aspect of the story. The MCU version of Simon Williams, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II—Aquaman's Black Manta and Matrix: Resurrections' young Morpheus—is a struggling actor who (deep breath) is auditioning for the role of a superhero called Wonder Man on a show-within-a-show called Wonder Man.

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With this little tidbit, Wonder Man—the actual Disney+ miniseries, not the fake show—is seemingly positioning itself to be (sigh) a metacommentary on superhero stories and Hollywood writ large. Basically, Wonder Man has the potential to be a MCU-ified version of HBO’s superhero-moviemaking satire The Franchise, which just premiered a few weeks ago. That’s probably why Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery is in the mix. If you remember, he was an actor hired to play The Mandarin back in Iron Man 3 before we got the real version of the character in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, played by the legendary Tony Leung.

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Wonder Man first popped up as a forthcoming project during Marvel’s heat-check streak of greenlighting any number of Disney+ series, and it's still an open question if the Wonder Man lore is sufficient to fuel an open-ended TV show. But the meta-Hollywood stuff, if done right, could lend itself to a good show—especially if Marvel’s willing to look in the mirror about some of its missteps in the last few years. And if they're willing to put him in a safari jacket.

Wonder Man hits Disney+ in December 2025.

 

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II enters the MCU in 'Wonder Man' first look

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II auditions to play the ultimate superhero in 'Wonder Man' first look. Plus, see teases for 'Daredevil: Born Again' and other upcoming MCU TV projects.

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https://screenrant.com/mcu-simon-williams-wonder-man-powers-comics-history-explained/

 

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[ThaBurgerPimp]

Salt-n-Pepa better do the theme song.. "Wonder Man Wonder Man Wonder Man/he's a mighty Wonder Man..."

(Tatiana Maslany as She Hulk and Kathryn Hahn as Agatha in the video doing the "Say it again,now.." parts

 

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A more in-depth review of the character

 

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[keith6]

So Black Manta is Wonder Man now?

 

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So Black Manta is Wonder Man now?

If Chris Evans can be Johnny Storm and Steve Rogers..

 

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Everything We Know About Marvel’s WONDER MAN Series

Yahya Adbul-Mateen II is playing an actor who has superpowers in Marvel's Wonder Man series. Here's what we know about it so far.

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Marvel's Wonder Man Series Is Borrowing An Underrated Peacemaker Marketing Gimmick - SlashFilm

Marvel's Wonder Man seems to be taking a page from DC's playbook in terms of its marketing so far, sending Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to a red carpet in character.

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Wonder Man gets a very meta promo as "Simon Williams" appears at the Fantastic Four premiere

Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II appears in character as Simon Williams to promote Wonder Man

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Marvel's Wonder Man Series Is Borrowing An Underrated Peacemaker Marketing Gimmick - SlashFilm

Marvel's Wonder Man seems to be taking a page from DC's playbook in terms of its marketing so far, sending Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to a red carpet in character.

www.slashfilm.com

Wonder Man gets a very meta promo as "Simon Williams" appears at the Fantastic Four premiere

Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II appears in character as Simon Williams to promote Wonder Man

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[blackbull1970]

What am I missing?

Is this a superhero series or a sitcom?…

I’m lost.

 

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What am I missing?

Is this a superhero series or a sitcom?…

I’m lost.

I have no idea either lol but it looks interesting...

 

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interesting...

 

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Trailer looks interesting

 

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Disney+ Announces Historic 8-Episode Binge Release for Next MCU Show

By Klein Felt
November 15, 2025

Disney+ Announces Historic 8-Episode Binge Release for Next MCU Show

Here is how Marvel Studios' next show will break new ground with its historic binge release on Disney+.

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Disney+ confirmed a historic binge release for Marvel Studios' next streaming show. The streamer will next dip its toes in the Marvel-tinged waters with the release of Wonder Man, due out in late January, a new super-powered comedy that is said to poke fun at Hollywood, comic book movies, and the entertainment industry as a whole.

Not only will Wonder Man be the first Marvel series starring the long-standing comic book character, but it will also break new ground with its specific release strategy. As confirmed at New York Comic-Con (NYCC) 2025, Wonder Man will debut with all eight episodes streaming simultaneously on January 27, 2026.

Several other series have opted for the binge model to this point, but none to the extent that Wonder Man has. Previously, Echo held the record with five episodes dropping at once, and Eyes of Wakanda and Marvel Zombies stood as runners-up with four.

Wonder Man stars Yahya Abdul Mateen II as Simon Williams, an aspiring actor working in Hollywood, who makes it his incredibly meta quest to get cast in the superhero movie reboot from which the show takes its name. In Simon's quest, he gets powers of his own, becoming the superhero he aspires to be on-screen...

 

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Disney+ Announces Historic 8-Episode Binge Release for Next MCU Show

By Klein Felt
November 15, 2025

Disney+ Announces Historic 8-Episode Binge Release for Next MCU Show

Here is how Marvel Studios' next show will break new ground with its historic binge release on Disney+.

thedirect.com

Disney+ confirmed a historic binge release for Marvel Studios' next streaming show. The streamer will next dip its toes in the Marvel-tinged waters with the release of Wonder Man, due out in late January, a new super-powered comedy that is said to poke fun at Hollywood, comic book movies, and the entertainment industry as a whole.

Not only will Wonder Man be the first Marvel series starring the long-standing comic book character, but it will also break new ground with its specific release strategy. As confirmed at New York Comic-Con (NYCC) 2025, Wonder Man will debut with all eight episodes streaming simultaneously on January 27, 2026.

Several other series have opted for the binge model to this point, but none to the extent that Wonder Man has. Previously, Echo held the record with five episodes dropping at once, and Eyes of Wakanda and Marvel Zombies stood as runners-up with four.

Wonder Man stars Yahya Abdul Mateen II as Simon Williams, an aspiring actor working in Hollywood, who makes it his incredibly meta quest to get cast in the superhero movie reboot from which the show takes its name. In Simon's quest, he gets powers of his own, becoming the superhero he aspires to be on-screen...

I await the usual reflex bullsh*t narrative that since they are releasing the entire series at once?

That means it must be bad.

 

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I await the usual reflex bullsh*t narrative that since they are releasing the entire series at once?

That means it must be bad.

That was my first thought also, but I looked into the Disney+ schedule for 2026.

After WM, the next MCU series is Daredevil Season 2 in March. That leaves no announced MCU production in February.

There is a Punisher special due soon that has finished production and is scheduled for an unannounced 2026 release. Star Wars has no new series listed for the first part of the new year. Ahsoka is in post production and there is a Darth Maul animated series scheduled for 2026.

It’s possible Disney+ has a a surprise unannounced release for February and doesn’t want to ruin Wonder Man’s release having another series overlap it.

We will wait and see…