2026 Marvel Television & Animation Preview - Brad Winderbaum talks Wonder Man, Born Again Season 2, X-Men' 97 S2, VisionQuest and reveals Marvel Zombies Season 2 is currently in early development, but has not been greenlit yet
* Brad and Director/Storyboard Artist of the series Brian Andrews are actively developing ideas about the next Zombies story, but a second season has not been greenlit yet.
* Wonder Man came about when Destin Daniel Cretton and Sir Ben Kingsley were filming Shang-Chi and were discussing about doing a series for Trevor, while Marvel Producers Stephen Broussard and Brian Gay were also discussing ideas for a Wonder Man show at the same time. Since both ideas were about an actor's journey, they kind of merged into a two-hander series about Simon and Trevor. Then Brad brought Andrew Guest on board who had worked as a writer and consulting producer on Hawkeye and he found a way to express an uncynical view of the trials and tribulations of being in the creative arts.
* If Born Again Season 1 was about Fisk's rise to power, Season 2 is about the trappings of power and how hard it is to hold onto that power. It also explores the challenges of bringing different parties together to take on the power.
* What's most interesting about Jessica's return in Born Again Season 2 is the time jump. It's been so long since we last saw her, that this season will reestablish the character and catch the audience up to what she's been up to, and that is filled with a lot of cool surprises.
* The original creators and showrunners of X-Men: TAS were only consulting producers in Season 1, but they've been brought on as full executive producers for Season 2 and they helped guide the team.
* VisionQuest is really rewarding for fans of the WandaVision trilogy, but also fans of the Infinity Saga. Terry Matalas is like someone who grew up at Marvel. He knows the MCU as well as the producers at Marvel Studios and manages to pull from the MCU mythology and lore in clever ways that don't make it feel like homework, or old ideas that you have to remember, but rather fresh ideas that just pull from the same rich well of concepts.
* Agatha All Along played a lot with motherhood and similarly, VisionQuest plays a lot with fatherhood, while the entire trilogy is focused a lot on parenthood. Terry Matalas explores the idea of 3 generations of grandfathers, fathers and sons; can a man who had an abusive father be a good father himself? It's a fun, Marvel adventure, and you see Vision kicking ass, but it's all done in the backdrop of real, human stakes and emotions, which makes the show feel very grand and it really delivers on a lot of things.
* Wonder Man came about when Destin Daniel Cretton and Sir Ben Kingsley were filming Shang-Chi and were discussing about doing a series for Trevor, while Marvel Producers Stephen Broussard and Brian Gay were also discussing ideas for a Wonder Man show at the same time. Since both ideas were about an actor's journey, they kind of merged into a two-hander series about Simon and Trevor. Then Brad brought Andrew Guest on board who had worked as a writer and consulting producer on Hawkeye and he found a way to express an uncynical view of the trials and tribulations of being in the creative arts.
* If Born Again Season 1 was about Fisk's rise to power, Season 2 is about the trappings of power and how hard it is to hold onto that power. It also explores the challenges of bringing different parties together to take on the power.
* What's most interesting about Jessica's return in Born Again Season 2 is the time jump. It's been so long since we last saw her, that this season will reestablish the character and catch the audience up to what she's been up to, and that is filled with a lot of cool surprises.
* The original creators and showrunners of X-Men: TAS were only consulting producers in Season 1, but they've been brought on as full executive producers for Season 2 and they helped guide the team.
* VisionQuest is really rewarding for fans of the WandaVision trilogy, but also fans of the Infinity Saga. Terry Matalas is like someone who grew up at Marvel. He knows the MCU as well as the producers at Marvel Studios and manages to pull from the MCU mythology and lore in clever ways that don't make it feel like homework, or old ideas that you have to remember, but rather fresh ideas that just pull from the same rich well of concepts.
* Agatha All Along played a lot with motherhood and similarly, VisionQuest plays a lot with fatherhood, while the entire trilogy is focused a lot on parenthood. Terry Matalas explores the idea of 3 generations of grandfathers, fathers and sons; can a man who had an abusive father be a good father himself? It's a fun, Marvel adventure, and you see Vision kicking ass, but it's all done in the backdrop of real, human stakes and emotions, which makes the show feel very grand and it really delivers on a lot of things.
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The rest of this is cool info, though. :)
This could also be a perfect way to bring back Luke for a small cameo and tease a bigger role in Season 3. Mike Colter has been leaving hints on social media about returning to the role and was also in NYC during filming of Season 2, so this feels like the most plausible scenario here.
I also can't wait for VisionQuest. It truly feels like the last pit stop of this Saga that will tie up many loose ends and conclude many character arcs in order to move on to Doomsday and eventually the next Saga.
Apart from the obvious (Tommy's return and possibly Billy and Agatha appearing at the end to reunite (most) of the family as well as Ultron as Vision's arch-enemy and greatest influence), it also feels like this will be where the first part of the DODC's story will end after Wonder Man and Brand New Day and we will see their full transition from a super-human law-enforcement agency to a super-human hunting agency as well as a tease about the creation of the Sentinels, maybe even using Ultron's intelligence. This would have supposedly been the plot of Armor Wars, which was reportedly reworked and folded into this series.
This means that we might also see Sharon Carter, a major loose end from the very beginning of this Saga, since she was also reportedly set to appear in Armor Wars and set photos of VisionQuest have revealed we're going back to >!Madripoor!<.
That's what sucks about all the defender shows being cancelled and the characters coming back after so long. Huge time jumps with the character in totally different places. Supporting cast downplayed. It just so totally different.
Very excited for X-Men 97 s2, hope it can match the quality of s1. Giving the OG show runners more influence will be good since all how DeMayo situation played out.