{"id":70413,"date":"2025-10-10T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:40:08","slug":"teaser-marvel-studios-wonder-man-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70413\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaser: Marvel Studios&#8217; &#8220;Wonder Man&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaser-marvel-studios-wonder-man-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Marvel Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaser-marvel-studios-wonder-man-series.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"teaser-marvel-studios-wonder-man-series\"\/><\/a>Marvel Studios<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios has released a first teaser for its upcoming \u201cWonder Man\u201d meta comedy series, with a full trailer likely coming tomorrow and timed with the Marvel New York Comic Con panel on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser showcases the announcement of plans for a modern-day reboot of a classic \u201cWonder Man\u201d TV series and an interview with filmmaker Von Kovak who has been hired to direct the reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatko Buri\u0107, who played Boravian president Vasil Ghurkos in James Gunn\u2019s \u201cSuperman,\u201d plays Von Kovak here in brief scenes.  We also glimpse shots from an old-fashioned TV series, which is what\u2019s being rebooted, within the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In the series, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Simon Williams \u2013 a gifted engineer who gains superhuman abilities, including enhanced strength, speed, stamina, durability, reflexes, and agility. He becomes Wonder Man.<\/p>\n<p>Also starring is Demetrius Grosse as Simon\u2019s brother Eric Williams (aka. Grim Reaper), Ed Harris as talent agent Neal Saroyan, and Sir Ben Kingsley as washed up actor Trevor Slattery.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Destin Cretton and Stella Meghie each direct several episodes while Andrew Guest is head writer.  An exact date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios Marvel Studios has released a first teaser for its upcoming \u201cWonder Man\u201d meta comedy series, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-70413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}