The New Year is here, and in a few weeks, so will Wonder Man. Marvel’s next TV series left its December 2025 for later this month, and a new trailer reminds you it’s not that far off, and finally establishes some big stakes.
Plot-wise, we’ve known Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is looking to book the title role in a superhero reboot of the old pulp movie Wonder Man. As the trailer says, he’s got a problem: he’s got superpowers, and he’s trying to hide them so they don’t hurt his chances of becoming a big-shot actor. His efforts to hide his secret leads him to former Mandarin Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), and it seems like things go well!…Right up until the point we see Damage Control out in LA and agent Cleary (Arian Moayed) calling Simon an “extraordinary threat.”
Previous trailers have played coy about what Simon can do, and this new one gives a deeper look at his power set, namely his super strength and a tease of his ionic powers. (How much of a handle he’s got on them, and how he got them, remains to be seen.) It also wants you to watch the show because of its big award-winning cast: along with namechecking Mateen II’s Emmy win and Kingsley’s Academy awards, the trailer highlights Guldbagge Award winner Zlatko Burić, previously seen in Superman and here playing Von Kovak, director of the in-universe Wonder Man remake.
All episodes of Wonder Man will drop January 27 on Disney+.
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