VisionQuest has a new trailer, and it finally shows what Terry Matalas has been building since Vision flew off at the end of WandaVision. Paul Bettany returns as the synthezoid, now hiding from the people who want to weaponize him again and working out who he is without Wanda Maximoff or his old memories to guide him. The series premieres on Disney+ this Wednesday, October 14.
The whole show grew out of a single note. Kevin Feige's only fixed request to Matalas was that Vision find his way back to his son. Working backward from that, Matalas realized Vision would need someone to talk to along the way, and landed on Ultron, which was a problem since Ultron was supposed to be dead at the end of Age of Ultron. Solving that became the engine for the season, and Matalas has described the result as a mash up of Pinocchio and Frankenstein, a synthetic being deciding whether becoming human is even worth wanting this time.
James Spader returns to voice Ultron for the first time since 2015, this time opposite Bettany's Vision rather than the rest of the Avengers. Matalas, who previously steered Star Trek: Picard and 12 Monkeys through similarly tangled legacy stories, directs several episodes himself, and he and Bettany have both talked about wanting the show to take real swings rather than play it safe with a character this well established.
VisionQuest runs eight episodes, opening with two episodes this Wednesday and continuing with double drops for the following two weeks before single episodes carry it to a November 11 finale. It closes out the trilogy that started with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, and the trailer alone suggests Vision's piece of that story is the strangest of the three.
