VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event
Marvel’s streaming TV portfolio has kind of been all over the place: a handful of hits, a few misses, and a bunch of middling offerings. One of the standout hits was WandaVision, followed by an excellent sequel (of sorts), Agatha All Along. VisionQuest will complete the trilogy. Yes, Vision (Paul Bettany) died in Infinity War, but WandaVision resurrected an all-white version whose memories were restored in the finale. We finally get to learn what happened afterward.
Per the official premise:
Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron’s influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he’s to survive.
Naturally Bettany is returning as Vision, along with James Spader as Ultron. Agatha All Along gave us a new Billy Maximoff, whose soul took over the dying body of another teen as Wanda’s spell unraveled at the end of WandaVision. Fans may recall that Agatha helped Bill track down the soul of his twin, Tommy (aka Speed), and place him into the body of a teen boy who drowned, Thomas Shepherd. That storyline is clearly getting picked up in VisionQuest, since Ruaridh Mollica has been cast as Tommy/Thomas Shepherd. Bettany said last year that the series would explore “intergenerational trauma” with fathers and sons.
The cast also includes Todd Stashwick as a bounty hunter named Paradin who is tracking down Vision; T’Nia Miller as a vengeful robot named Jocasta; Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., aka Tony Stark’s augmented reality security and defense system; Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Stark’s replacement AI system for J.A.R.V.I.S.; and James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S. (D’Arcy played a human Jarvis serving Stark’s father in Agent Carter.) Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer play D.U.M.E. and U, respectively, two of Stark’s robot workshop assistants.
In addition, Lauren Morais plays Lisa Molinari; Diane Morgan plays an associate of Paladin; Cristian Lavin plays a mercenary; and Mary McDonnell will appear in an as-yet-undisclosed role. And Faran Tahir will be back as Raza, leader of the Ten Rings, who kidnapped Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man. We thought Raza had died in that film, but we’ll probably see him in a flashback or perhaps just in Vision’s mind.
VisionQuest debuts on October 14, 2026, on Disney+.
Ahsoka S2
The Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka was first introduced as a supporting character in 2008’s animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the subsequent animated series. The character returned in the sequel series Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018) as a member of the Rebel Alliance, operating under the codename Fulcrum, and made numerous other cameo appearances in the extended Star Wars universe. Rosario Dawson’s live-action version made her debut in The Mandalorian‘s second season. She also appeared briefly in The Book of Boba Fett.
And then she got her own series, Ahsoka, set in the same timeframe as The Mandalorian. In the first season, Ahsoka teamed up with her former apprentice, Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) to prevent Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelson) from returning from the galaxy in which he was stranded, lest he unite what remains of the Galactic Empire and take down the fledgling New Republic. The season ended with Ahsoka and Sabine stranded in the same galaxy and a returned Thrawn taking up arms against the New Republic.
Per the official S2 premise: “Season 2 continues the story of Ahsoka Tano and her extraordinary journey beyond the known galaxy. As Ahsoka and her Jedi apprentice Sabine Wren travel across a mysterious and perilous world to find their way home, their friends Hera, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper must face the powerful Grand Admiral Thrawn and his sinister allies, who seek to plunge the New Republic into war.”
Dawson, Bordizzo, and Mikkelson are back for S2, of course, along with Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati, David Tennant as Huyang, Dave Filoni as Chopper;, and Elden Bennett as Admiral Akbar. Rory McCann (Game of Thrones) replaces Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll (the actor died in 2023). As the logline confirms, “Zeb” Orrelios will also appear in S2.
The second season of Ahsoka will premiere on January 20, 2027, on Disney+.
Avengers: Doomsday
Marvel dropped the first full trailer for Doomsday a few days before San Diego Comic-Con last month and unveiled an exclusive “special look” at additional footage for SDCC attendees. The rest of us are finally getting to see that footage.
The film takes place 14 months after the events of Thunderbolts*. Per the official logline: “Beloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they’ve ever encountered.” Those universes are Earth-616 (the Avengers, Wakandans, and New Avengers), Earth-828 (Fantastic Four), and the “original” X-Men (more on this below).
In the footage, we learn more about Robert Downey Jr.’s Victor von Doom character via a voiceover by Sue Reed (Vanessa Kirby). Victor was an old friend, the smartest guy in the room, and Sue assures us that “he used to be different” before “everything he loved was taken from him. I knew he was lost. But I did not realize he was broken.” Dr. Doom’s voiceover accuses our star-studded ensemble cast of living “stolen lives,” and insists that “now you must give them back.” This does not bode well for anyone.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.
Star Wars: Starfighter
Levy described the film as being “full of humor, danger, and spectacle, but above all the joyous spirit that has always been the beating heart of this legacy that we all love so much.” As for the story, it’s brand new, not related at all to the two trilogies that make up the Skywalker Saga. Gosling said it was about a character “from the wrong side of the galaxy whose fate is intertwined with the fastest starfighter ever built.” The film takes place five or six years after The Rise of Skywalker on a watery planet. That’s a period that hasn’t yet been depicted in the franchise, so Levy and his production team had to come up with new sets and designs that were still consistent with the overall feel of Star Wars.
Star Wars: Starfighter hits theaters on May 28, 2027—50 years (almost to the day) after the original movie, Star Wars: A New Hope, debuted.
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