Paul Bettany is back as Vision! Marvel sets up Disney+ spin-off series to premiere in 2026
Paul Bettany will reprise his MCU role as the android-turned-Avenger Vision for the sixth time in a new Disney+ spinoff series premiering in 2026.
Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas will revive the synthezoid and handle showrunner duties for the untitled show that follows the adventures of ‘Ghost’ Vision, Variety reported on Wednesday.
The Emmy-nominated Englishman – who turns 53 next Monday – played the role of Vision in Joss Whedon’s 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) created him using his artificial intelligence JARVIS, Ultron and the Mind Stone.
Vision was then killed by Thanos (Josh Brolin) in the Russo Brothers’ 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War so he could retrieve the Mind Stone for his Infinity Gauntlet, allowing him to snap his fingers and wipe out half of all life could disintegrate into the universe.
The character of Paul returned twice – as ‘Ghost’ Vision and ‘White’ Vision – for Jac Schaeffer’s nine-episode surreal spin-off WandaVision, which aired on Disney+ in 2021.
Paul Bettany will reprise his MCU role as the android-turned-Avenger Vision for the sixth time in a new Disney+ spinoff series premiering in 2026.
Scarlet Witch, aka Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), created ‘White’ Vision as an android, and she created ‘Ghost’ Vision using Hex magic, powered by grief, but she restored ‘Ghost’ Vision’s memories before disappearing from existence.
‘I have been a voice without a body. A body, but not a person. And now a memory has become reality,” Vision said in the finale.
“Who knows what I’ll be next time?”
Jac Schaeffer had worked on an earlier version of the spinoff called Vision Quest, but instead became showrunner on Kathryn Hahn’s upcoming WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along.
Bettany will next play a mysterious role in Robert Zemeckis’ ambitious big-screen adaptation of Richard McGuire’s 1989 graphic novel Here, which hits US cinemas on November 22, alongside Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.
The SAG Award nominee is currently in Hungary filming his role as Antonio Salieri in Joe Barton’s limited series adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus, which premieres on Sky Max next year.
Paul will also reprise his West End role as pop artist Andy Warhol in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s big screen adaptation of The Collaboration, alongside Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas (R, pictured September 7) will revive the synthezoid and handle showrunner duties for the untitled show following the adventures of ‘Ghost’ Vision, Variety reported on Wednesday
The Emmy-nominated Englishman – who turns 53 next Monday – played the role of Vision in Joss Whedon’s 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Tony Stark (L, Robert Downey Jr.) created him using his artificial intelligence JARVIS , Ultron and the Mind Stone
Vision was then killed by Thanos (R, Josh Brolin) in the Russo Brothers’ 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War so he could retrieve the Mind Stone for his Infinity Gauntlet, allowing him to snap his fingers and save half of everything life in the world could disintegrate. universe
The character of Paul returned twice – as ‘Ghost’ Vision and ‘White’ Vision – for Jac Schaeffer’s nine-episode surreal spin-off WandaVision, which aired on Disney+ in 2021