{"id":220381,"date":"2025-10-13T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:12:07","slug":"joe-pantoliano-reveals-wonder-man-role-22-years-after-marvels-daredevil-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220381\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Pantoliano reveals ‘Wonder Man’ role 22 years after Marvel’s ‘Daredevil’ movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Pantoliano<\/a> is heading to the MCU.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old actor revealed that he plays an undisclosed role in the upcoming Marvel television series Wonder Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna be in the new Wonder Man series,\u201d Pantoliano confirmed at a Matrix<\/a> reunion panel held at New York Comic Con<\/a> on Sunday. Entertainment Weekly reached out to Marvel for comment.\n<\/p>\n

While he did not disclose his role, Pantoliano said he had a blast shooting the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II<\/a>-led superhero series.\n<\/p>\n

Joe Pantoliano at New York Comic Con’s ‘The Matrix’ reunion.<\/p>\n

Craig Barritt\/Getty Images for ReedPop<\/p>\n

\u201cYahya!\u201d he agreed, riffing on his costar\u2019s name. \u201cAnd Sir Ben Kingsley<\/a>. Just to hear him say my name, Joe Pantoliano.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

He also confirmed that Kingsley never once referred to him as his widely used nickname, \u201cJoey Pants,” throughout filming. \u201cNo, never, he never did. He called me Lord Trousers,\u201d Pantoliano teased. \u201cI can\u2019t be Joey. I\u2019m 74, so it\u2019s Joseph Trousers.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

This isn’t Pantoliano’s first foray with Marvel. He previously starred as Ben Urich in the 2003 Daredevil film headlined by Ben Affleck. It is currently unclear whether or not he will be reprising his role as the investigative journalist or taking on a new character as he heads to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe Pantoliano in 2003’s ‘Daredevil’ movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a020th Century Fox\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly ahead of New York Comic Con, Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum teased that Wonder Man is a meta story \u201cabout acting and the journey of an actor in Hollywood<\/a>.”\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Disney+ series will see Abdul-Mateen star as Simon Williams, an actor who auditions for the lead role in an upcoming Wonder Man reboot. He is accompanied on his quest by Kingsley\u2019s Trevor Slattery, with the pair forming a fast friendship over their shared passion for acting.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Winderbaum also confirmed that Wonder Man is taking a page from WandaVision and shifting its release date from December to January 2026. “We don’t want it to get swallowed up by people watching Home Alone and Die Hard and Elf,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Pantoliano is heading to the MCU.\u00a0 The 74-year-old actor revealed that he plays an undisclosed role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-220381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}