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After garnering positive reviews and having cracked the Nielsen Streaming Originals chart using a binge release model, something that Daredevil: Born Again hasn’t managed in either of its much-hyped weekly rollout seasons, Wonder Man will be coming back to Disney+ for a second batch of episodes in the future.
Marvel doesn’t renew its live-action Disney+ shows very often. Only Loki and Born Again managed to secure renewals before Wonder Man’s debut. Yet unexpectedly, audiences warmed to the unusual series, which introduces a complex superpowered human and struggling actor named Simon Williams, who keeps his powers hidden so he can audition for parts in a Hollywood that’s playing it safe by only casting normies.
Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was keen to hop over to the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Wonder Man came along, having been impressed by the “fun, funny and smart” world Marvel Studios was building, but he was wary of taking the part of Simon Williams until he had spoken to Marvel maestro Kevin Feige personally, he revealed to THR.
“I asked [Feige], ‘I only get one Marvel buck to spend. Is this worth my dollar, because I can wait.’ And he said, ‘No, trust me, it will be worth it.’ And I’m so glad this is the role I got to spend my dollar on because I’m getting all of the super stuff and I’m getting all of the human stuff at the same time.”
Abdul-Mateen II plays Williams as an odd kind of hero; someone who cares much more about breaking into Hollywood than about his powers. During the first season of Wonder Man, Williams also joins forces with washed-up actor Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley) and together they make for compelling viewing as they form a genuinely sweet friendship. The show wisely avoids the superhero spectacle usually associated with Marvel projects, and showrunner Andrew Guest has confirmed that season 2 will maintain the same tone.
“The people who like this show and like it because it feels different are going to be rewarded,” Guest said. “And the people who think that this show is going to suddenly turn into something else, I’m sorry to say, it’s not. Simon still has superpowers. It is still about this relationship, about two artists, and our industry. That is essentially what we want to maintain.”
He noted that, “One of the things that has been really rewarding is people who don’t think they like Marvel shows, or who have nothing to do with Marvel, find themselves watching it and binging it. My mother’s therapist, the last person who would watch a Marvel show, texted her, ‘I stayed up all night, I’ve never binged a show, I watched the whole thing.’”
Wonder Man season 2 is still in development and doesn’t yet have a release date. We’ll update you as soon as we know more.
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