{"id":192532,"date":"2025-10-11T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:57:08","slug":"marvels-wonder-man-teaser-is-being-very-meta-about-superhero-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192532\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Wonder Man teaser is being very meta about superhero fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to be in on \u201cthe joke\u201d when \u201cthe joke\u201d is a widespread reaction to you and your business, and basically could not exist without the entire planet getting a little sick of your shit over 15 years of total cultural domination? This is the question raised by the teaser trailer Marvel put out today for its upcoming Wonder Man TV show<\/a>, which goes very light on Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as would-be superhero acting star Simon Williams, and very heavy on Zlatko Buri\u0107\u2014fresh off co-starring in a big, successful blockbuster<\/a> for the Distinguished Competition\u2014monologuing about how goddamn sick people are of superhero movies lately.<\/p>\n

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It is, if nothing else, kind of audacious, as the teaser for the limited series centers on a video interview with fictional director Van Kovak, a respected and reclusive auteur who has, for some reason, signed on for an inevitable franchise revival of an old superhero movie called Wonder Man. Actually\u00a0directed by\u00a0Shang-Chi<\/a>\u2018s Destin Daniel Cretton, the trailer includes a lot of phrases that we assume make Kevin Feige cling tightly to his fun little ballcaps, including, \u201cWhy one more superhero film?\u201d \u201cWhy go see them in the cinema?\u201d and \u201cEveryone is tired of superheroes.\u201d Featuring a quick glimpse at Ben Kingsley\u2019s washed-up-actor-turned-supervillain-hostage Trevor Slattery\u2014as well as a really odd (Vision-free) vision board in Kovac\u2019s office\u2014the trailer gives the impression that we\u2019re going to get something that\u2019s as much The Franchise<\/a> as a more traditional hero story.<\/p>\n

And, again, it\u2019s not entirely clear whether you can\u00a0do\u00a0those kinds of calls for satirical poking from inside the house (of ideas<\/a>), but it will, at the very least, be kind of interesting to see them try. Wonder Man\u00a0is expected to land on Disney+ some time in early 2026.<\/p>\n

Crew member dies on the set of Marvel’s Wonder Man series<\/a>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Marvel\u2019s Wonder Man on Disney Plus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it possible to be in on \u201cthe joke\u201d when \u201cthe joke\u201d is a widespread reaction to you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-192532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}