Paul Bettany is set to reprise his MCU role as the android-turned-Avenger Vision for the sixth time in a new Disney+ spin-off series scheduled to premiere in 2026.
Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas will resurrect the synthezoid and serve showrunner duties for the untitled show following the adventures of ‘Ghost’ Vision, Variety reported on Wednesday.
The Emmy-nominated Englishman – turning 53 next Monday – originated 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 J.A.R.V.I.S., 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, which enabled him to snap his fingers and disintegrate half of all life across the universe.
Paul’s character returned twice – as ‘Ghost’ Vision and ‘White’ Vision – for Jac Schaeffer’s surreal nine-episode spin-off WandaVision, which aired in 2021 on Disney+.
Paul Bettany is set to reprise his MCU role as the android-turned-Avenger Vision for the sixth time in a new Disney+ spin-off series scheduled to premiere 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 he faded from existence.
‘I have been a voice with no body. A body, but not human. And now a memory made real,’ Vision said in the finale.
‘Who knows what I might be next?’
Jac Schaeffer had been working on an earlier version of the spin-off called Vision Quest but, instead, he became showrunner of Kathryn Hahn’s upcoming WandaVision spin-off, Agatha All Along.
Bettany will next play a mystery role in Robert Zemeckis’ ambitious big-screen adaptation of Richard McGuire’s 1989 graphic novel Here – hitting US theaters 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 will premiere next year on Sky Max.
Paul is also set to 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 resurrect the synthezoid and serve showrunner duties for the untitled show following the adventures of ‘Ghost’ Vision, Variety reported on Wednesday
The Emmy-nominated Englishman – turning 53 next Monday – originated 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 J.A.R.V.I.S., 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, which enabled him to snap his fingers and disintegrate half of all life across the universe
Paul’s character returned twice – as ‘Ghost’ Vision and ‘White’ Vision – for Jac Schaeffer’s surreal nine-episode spin-off WandaVision, which aired in 2021 on Disney+
