Paul Bettany will return to Marvel TV with Picard showrunner Terry Matalas

Disney+ still has eyes for Vision. Paul Bettany will return to his Marvel role as the humanoid conception of the malevolent supercomputer Ultron, but a good guy, but also undead because Thanos killed him a few movies back. It’s comics, it’s meant to be confusing. 

“WandaVision,” in which Bettany starred opposite Elizabeth Olsen, remains one of the most successful of the Disney+ Marvel shows, netting both Bettany and Olsen Emmy nominations—one of eight Primetime Emmy nominations for the show, as well as 12 Creative Arts Emmy nominations and three wins.

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Terry Matalas has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner for the series, due to stream in 2026. Matalas’s most recent gig was over at Paramount+, where he had the center seat on the third season of “Star Trek: Picard.” Most nerds will agree that the third season was the best, pivoting away from the original mandate of doing something new with the characters and instead giving the people what they want, which was basically a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” sequel. Matalas has been campaigning in the press and at conventions to convince Trek’s Fleet Admiral Alex Kurtzman to greenlight an idea called “Star Trek: Legacy” to keep some of the old characters working, but he has not yet been successful. 

Oddly enough, Matt Shakman, who directed all nine episodes of the North Jersey-set “WandaVision,” was working with Paramount Pictures on a fourth “Star Trek” movie in the Chris Pine–Zachary Quinto timeline. This project, like several other “Trek” movies – including one based on an idea by Quentin Tarantino – has been shelved in favor of yet another reboot. This time, producer Simon Kinberg, whose track record in recent years has been spotty at best, is in charge. 

Matalas’s “Vision” project takes over one that was already in the works from “WandaVision” creator Jac Schaeffer, who turned her attention to “Agatha All Along,” a “WandaVision” spin-off starring Kathryn Hahn due to debut this autumn. 

No cast beyond Bettany has been announced. The former cast member of three Royal Shakespeare Company productions was recently on the West End and Broadway in Anthony McCarten’s “The Collaboration” playing Andy Warhol opposite Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. 

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