{"id":350120,"date":"2025-12-17T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350120\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:55:07","slug":"ben-kingsley-also-cant-believe-hes-starring-in-wonder-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350120\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kingsley Also Can\u2019t Believe He\u2019s Starring in ‘Wonder Man’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley was cast as the villain<\/a> of 2013\u2019s Iron Man 3, no one could have predicted where things would go from there. For starters, Kingsley wasn\u2019t actually playing iconic Marvel villain the Mandarin; he was Trevor Slattery, a washed-up actor posing as the Mandarin. From there, Kingsley reprised the role<\/a> in a 2014 short about his character, All Hail the King, and again in 2021 with<\/a> Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. That, by all accounts, could have been it. But Trevor remains.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kingsley and Trevor will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year in the new Disney+ show Wonder Man.<\/a> The show follows both Trevor and a fellow actor named Simon Williams (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) as they go after the leading roles in a new superhero movie called, you guessed it, \u201cWonder Man.\u201d It\u2019s Kingsley\u2019s best chance yet to dive into what makes Trevor tick, and he\u2019s still a bit in shock that it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Shang-Chi, [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and [director] Destin [Daniel Cretton] suggested to me the possibility of Trevor reappearing for the fourth time in a TV series,\u201d Kingsley told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even know the title, and I said, \u2018I\u2019d be thrilled.\u2019 I love revisiting Trevor\u2014there\u2019s so many layers to him. [This] series does see Trevor before he got the role of Mandarin, and then of course after, so it\u2019s a real biography\u2014it\u2019s a biopic of Trevor in four episodes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wonder Man, which debuts on Disney+ on January 27, 2026, is actually eight episodes, so we aren\u2019t sure exactly what he means by that last part. But the prospect of seeing the character both before he took on this role that changed his life and what the impact is after is very intriguing, especially as he\u2019ll be doing it with Simon Williams, a character who, as early clips have revealed<\/a>, actually has powers.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Trevor] sees in Simon a friend, a colleague, but he also sees Simon as someone he can absolutely exploit for his own ends,\u201d Kingsley said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a classic, basic human condition story. You are associated with somebody and you have an affinity with that person, but at the same time, you know that you\u2019re going to have to exploit that person to get to where you need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more from Kingsley over at Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. And keep an eye out for Wonder Man in January. We have a feeling it\u2019s going to be great.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley was cast as the villain of 2013\u2019s Iron Man 3, no one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[152192,49,48,75,3080,337,99785],"class_list":{"0":"post-350120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ben-kingsley","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-marvel-studios","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-wonder-man"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}