{"id":293124,"date":"2025-11-18T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:18:09","slug":"wonder-man-is-different-than-any-other-marvel-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293124\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Man Is \u2018Different Than Any Other Marvel Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a good thing when the MCU<\/a> gets meta. Remember when She-Hulk busted out<\/a> of her own Disney+<\/a> icon, complained to Marvel Studios about the proposed ending to her own show, and took it up with the machine known as K.E.V.I.N.? Well, Marvel\u2019s next live-action series is about to get self-referential too. In Wonder Man<\/a>, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II doesn\u2019t just play Wonder Man. No, he\u2019s Simon Williams, an actor going for a role in a \u2018Wonder Man\u2019 movie, having grown up a big fan of the old \u2018Wonder Man\u2019 movie; except, he also might have some Wonder Man-esque powers of his own. Keeping up?<\/p>\n

Off the back of this year\u2019s trio of movies \u2013 the politically-themed thriller Captain America: Brave New World<\/a>, anti-hero team-up Thunderbolts<\/a>, and retro-futurist adventure The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a> \u2013 it represents another flavour of Marvel. \u201cWe\u2019re doing something that, tonally, feels much different than really any other Marvel show, or any other films,\u201d the actor \u2013 Abdul-Mateen, not Simon Williams \u2013 promises Empire. \u201cWe\u2019re doing something that\u2019s fresh, and a bit tongue-in-cheek, a bit self-aware.\u201d Get ready for a series that nods to all the machinery of Hollywood, the state of the superhero genre, and what it takes to be a leading man.<\/p>\n

Still underneath all the fourth-wall-breaking fun, there\u2019ll be real character work anchoring the show, as Williams teams up with Sir Ben Kingley\u2019s recurring MCU favourite, actor Trevor Slattery. \u201cThe show is self-aware, without looking directly into the camera,\u201d Abdul-Mateen explains. \u201cThere\u2019ll be commentary about superhero fatigue and things like that, but to me, it\u2019s just dressing. That\u2019s not really the aim of the show. The focus of the show is about an actor\u2019s journey. It\u2019s about a journey of friendship.\u201d Get ready to feel the wonder, man.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Wonder Man story in The Odyssey issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 20 November. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Wonder Man streams on Disney+ from 28 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a good thing when the MCU gets meta. Remember when She-Hulk busted out of her own Disney+…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-293124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}