Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Stars in Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ Series Trailer #1

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Stars in Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ Series Trailer #1

by Alex Billington
October 12, 2025
Source: YouTube

“I want to explore the place between fiction and non-fiction.” What? Marvel Studios has debuted their first full official trailer for the series called Wonder Man, a MCU spin-off series ready to debut for streaming in January 2026. This comes right after the brief teaser from NYCC – showing us more footage from this odd fresh superhero(??) series. Hollywood actor Simon Williams is thrust into the world of superheroes as he gets powers of his own, and becomes the fresh superhero Wonder Man. It’s a meta riff on superhero movies, with a director trying to reinvent them and remake Wonder Man, and he’ll end up casting Yahya in the lead, but this trailer doesn’t get that far yet. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as as Simon Williams / Wonder Man: A super-powered actor and stuntperson who auditions for the lead role in a superhero series. Co-created by Destin Daniel Cretton, the fresh Wonder Man series also stars Ben Kingsley back as actor Trevor Slattery from Iron Man 3, with Demetrius Grosse, Lauren Glazier, Byron Bowers, and more. And featuring Zlatko Buric (who was also in James Gunn’s Superman) as filmmaker Von Kovak. This is such a peculiar concept for Marvel. Will it work? Is anyone really into it? I mean, I’m a huge fan of Yahya, but I don’t know…

Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Marvel Studios’ next series Wonder Man, from YouTube:

You can rewatch the teaser footage for Marvel Studio’s Wonder Man series right here for that first look.

Wonder Man is a meta live-action Disney+ series with a “story about acting and the journey of an actor in Hollywood.” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Simon Williams, a working actor who auditions for the lead role in Wonder Man, an upcoming reboot of a classic Wonder Man project from his youth. The story is a two-hander between Simon and Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, who bond over their shared love of acting. Wonder Man is a series created by filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (director of Short Term 12, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, “American Born Chinese” series, upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day) and Andrew Guest (writer / producer on “Marry Me”, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”, “The Twilight Zone”, “Hawkeye”). Showrun and written by Andrew Guest. And with episodes directed by Destin Daniel Cretton & Stella Meghie (director of Jean of the Joneses, Everything Everything, The Weekend, The Photograph, and series “Insecure”, “Minx”). It’s executive produced by Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Guest, Jonathan Schwartz. Marvel Studios will debut the Wonder Man series streaming on Disney+ starting January 27th, 2026 early next year. Anyone curious? Want to watch this?

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