Marvel trailers are like buses, aren’t they? You wait ages for one and then three come along all at once (well, a few days apart, which is still like buses honestly.) And after getting Avengers: Doomsday teasers for both Chris Evans’ return and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor comeback over Christmas, we now have a shiny new trailer for something we don’t still have yonks to wait for: Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi) and Andrew Guest’s (Hawkeye) meta MCU series Wonder Man, in which Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, a struggling actor with secret powers who’s trying to land the role of a lifetime… playing Wonder Man, natch. Check it out below;
Those She-Hulk meets The Studio vibes are intensifying folks — and we are here for it! As this latest teaser for Cretton and Guest’s ‘self-aware’ eight-part Disney+ series wittily illustrates, Wonder Man is about to give Marvel Studios a chance to tackle the ‘superhero fatigue’ epidemic head-on as Simon Williams (Abdul-Mateen II, who ‘wants to be a star but has a secret’), the Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley, who used to be an actor/terrorist and ‘wants to help’), and oddball director Von Kovak (Superman‘s Boravian president Zlatko Burić) join forces to mount an audacious reboot of in-universe superhero classic Wonder Man. The hitch? Williams’ real-life, very much troublesome superpowers, Slattery’s ego, and Von Kovak’s eccentricities seem a combustible combo to say the least — and the shadowy Department Of Damage Control’s interest in Williams looks to spell trouble ahead for our supe-who-wants-to-be-a-hero.
The official synopsis for Wonder Man — which co-stars X Mayo, Demetrius Grosse, Arian Moayed, and Olivia Thirlby — shares how the show “follows aspiring Hollywood actor, Simon Williams, who is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns that legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film Wonder Man. These two actors, at opposite ends of their careers, doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film, giving audiences a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.”
Based on present evidence, superhero fatigue’s about to get a double-shot of superhero espresso and then some when lights, camera, and indeed action are called on Wonder Man‘s 28 January Disney+ debut.
