If you’re making a TV present a couple of Hollywood stuntman, you’re going to want some actors within the solid. And within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s actually solely a handful of these. The most outstanding might be Trevor Slattery, performed by Sir Ben Kingsley.
Introduced in Iron Man 3 because the MCU model of Iron Man’s arch-nemesis the Mandarin, he was ultimately revealed as as decoy; an actor named Trevor Slattery who was being paid by the true Mandarin to function a physique double to disguise his evil plans. Since then, Slattery additionally appeared within the “One-Shot” brief movie “All Hail the King,” after which Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which featured Wenwu, a villain loosely primarily based on the comedian guide model of the Mandarin, who served because the inspiration for the faux Mandarin performed by Kingsley. (Everybody bought that?)
The Slattery character is a bumbling, boozing actor, which makes him a nice alternative for the solid of a Wonder Man TV present just like the one Marvel is supposedly growing for Disney+. The Wonder Man character, Simon Williams, has typically labored as a Hollywood stuntman in his downtime from serving on the Avengers — and Variety stories that it seems doubtless that would be the premise of the present as nicely:
Kingsley returning as Slattery lends credence to stories that the present is meant to be a Hollywood satire, because it has been established that Slattery is a failed actor and Wonder Man has been an actor and a stuntman within the comics. Exactly how Kingsley would issue into the plot of the collection and what number of episodes he would seem in is being stored underneath wraps, however sources say he’ll play a serious position.
Wonder Man may work as a pleasant counterpart to She-Hulk, one other Marvel present that’s much less about superhero adventures than it’s a office comedy set in a world the place superheroes exist. It’s early but, however that strategy looks as if a enjoyable method to distinguish it from each different MCU TV present, which have a tendency to be extra serialized and filmic. Let TV exhibits be like TV exhibits I say.
Marvel has but to announce a premiere date for Wonder Man on Disney+.
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