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It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest. We also got the first teaser for Ahsoka S2; the public release of the Avengers: Doomsday special footage featured last month for attendees only at San Diego Comic-Con; a special sneak peek (for attendees only) for Star Wars: Starfighter; casting news for the MCU\u2019s X-Men movie; and a trailer for an animated special, LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian, coming to Disney+ next month.<\/p>\n (Some spoilers below. One MAJOR spoiler for Spider-Man: Brand New Day; we\u2019ll give you a heads-up when we get there.)<\/p>\n VisionQuest<\/p>\n Marvel\u2019s streaming TV portfolio has kind of been all over the place: a handful of hits, a few misses, and a bunch of middling offerings. One of the standout hits was WandaVision, followed by an excellent sequel (of sorts), Agatha All Along. VisionQuest will complete the trilogy. Yes, Vision (Paul Bettany) died in Infinity War, but WandaVision resurrected an all-white version whose memories were restored in the finale. We finally get to learn what happened afterward.<\/p>\n Per the official premise:<\/p>\n Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been\u00a0in\u00a0hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI\u00a0personas\u00a0embedded\u00a0in\u00a0his programming,\u00a0including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the\u00a0infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision\u2019s son, reincarnate.\u00a0As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron\u2019s\u00a0influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he\u2019s to survive.<\/p>\n Naturally Bettany is returning as Vision, along with James Spader as Ultron. Agatha All Along gave us a new Billy Maximoff, whose soul took over the dying body of another teen as Wanda\u2019s spell unraveled at the end of WandaVision. Fans may recall that Agatha helped Bill track down the soul of his twin, Tommy (aka Speed), and place him into the body of a teen boy who drowned, Thomas Shepherd. That storyline is clearly getting picked up in VisionQuest, since Ruaridh Mollica has been cast as Tommy\/Thomas Shepherd. Bettany said last year<\/a> that the series would explore \u201cintergenerational trauma\u201d with fathers and sons.<\/p>\n The cast also includes Todd Stashwick as a bounty hunter named Paradin who is tracking down Vision; T\u2019Nia Miller as a vengeful robot named Jocasta; Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., aka Tony Stark\u2019s augmented reality security and defense system; Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Stark\u2019s replacement AI system for J.A.R.V.I.S.; and James D\u2019Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S. (D\u2019Arcy played a human Jarvis serving Stark\u2019s father in Agent Carter.) Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer play D.U.M.E. and U, respectively, two of Stark\u2019s robot workshop assistants.<\/p>\n In addition, Lauren Morais plays Lisa Molinari; Diane Morgan plays an associate of Paladin; Cristian Lavin plays a mercenary; and Mary McDonnell will appear in an as-yet-undisclosed role. And Faran Tahir will be back as Raza, leader of the Ten Rings, who kidnapped Tony Stark in 2008\u2019s Iron Man. We thought Raza had died in that film, but we\u2019ll probably see him in a flashback or perhaps just in Vision\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n VisionQuest debuts on October 14, 2026, on Disney+.<\/p>\n Ahsoka S2<\/p>\n The Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka was first introduced<\/a> as a supporting character in 2008\u2019s animated film\u00a0Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the subsequent animated series. The character returned in the sequel series Star Wars Rebels<\/a> (2014-2018) as a member of the Rebel Alliance, operating under the codename Fulcrum, and made numerous other cameo appearances in the extended Star Wars universe. Rosario Dawson\u2019s live-action version made her debut in The Mandalorian\u2018s second season. She also appeared briefly in The Book of Boba Fett<\/a>.<\/p>\n And then she got her own series, Ahsoka, set in the same timeframe as The Mandalorian. In the first season, Ahsoka teamed up with her former apprentice, Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) to prevent Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelson) from returning from the galaxy in which he was stranded, lest he unite what remains of the Galactic Empire and take down the fledgling New Republic. The season ended with Ahsoka and Sabine stranded in the same galaxy and a returned Thrawn taking up arms against the New Republic.<\/p>\n Per the official S2 premise: \u201cSeason 2 continues the story of Ahsoka Tano and her extraordinary journey beyond the known galaxy. As Ahsoka and her Jedi apprentice Sabine Wren travel across a mysterious and perilous world to find their way home, their friends Hera, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper, must face the powerful Grand Admiral Thrawn and his sinister allies, who seek to plunge the New Republic into war.\u201d<\/p>\n Dawson, Bordizzo, and Mikkelson are back for S2, of course, along with Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati, David Tennant as Huyang, Dave Filoni as Chopper;, and Elden Bennett as Admiral Akbar. Rory McCann (Game of Thrones) replaces Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll (the actor died in 2023). As the logline confirms, \u201cZeb\u201d Orrelios will also appear in S2.<\/p>\n The second season of Ahsoka will premiere on January 20, 2027, on Disney+.<\/p>\n Avengers: Doomsday<\/p>\n Marvel dropped the first full trailer<\/a> for Doomsday a few days before San Diego Comic-Con last month, and unveiled an exclusive \u201cspecial look\u201d at additional footage for SDCC attendees. The rest of us are finally getting to see that footage.<\/p>\n The film takes place 14 months after the events of Thunderbolts*<\/a>. Per the official logline: \u201cBeloved heroes from three distinct universes will be set on a deadly collision course and face an existential threat unlike anything they\u2019ve ever encountered.\u201d Those universes are Earth-616 (the Avengers, Wakandans, and New Avengers), Earth-828 (Fantastic Four), and the \u201coriginal\u201d X-Men (more on this below).<\/p>\n In the footage, we learn more about Robert Downey Jr.\u2019s Victor von Doom character via a voiceover by Sue Reed (Vanessa Kirby). Victor was an old friend, the smartest guy in the room, and Sue assures us that \u201che used to be different\u201d before \u201ceverything he loved was taken from him. I knew he was lost. But I did not realize he was broken.\u201d Dr. Doom\u2019s voiceover accuses our star-studded ensemble cast of living \u201cstolen lives,\u201d and insists that \u201cnow you must give them back.\u201d This does not bode well for anyone.<\/p>\n Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n Star Wars: Starfighter<\/p>\n We haven\u2019t gotten an official teaser yet for Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>, directed by Shawn Levy (Deadpool and Wolverine) and starring Ryan Gosling\u2014or even much in the way of concrete details. But D23 attendees\u2014including several<\/a> media outlets<\/a>\u2014were treated to some exclusive first footage, with both Levy and Gosling taking the stage to introduce said footage.<\/p>\n Levy described<\/a> the film as being \u201cfull of humor, danger, and spectacle, but above all the joyous spirit that has always been the beating heart of this legacy that we all love so much.\u201d As for the story, it\u2019s brand new, not related at all to the two trilogies that make up the Skywalker Saga. Gosling said it was about a character \u201cfrom the wrong side of the galaxy whose fate is intertwined with the fastest starfighter ever built.\u201d The film takes place five or six years after The Rise of Skywalker on a watery planet. That\u2019s a period that hasn\u2019t yet been depicted in the franchise, so Levy and his production team had to come up with<\/a> new sets and designs that were still consistent with the overall feel of Star Wars.<\/p>\n Star Wars: Starfighter hits theaters on May 28, 2027\u201450 years (almost to the day) after the original movie, Star Wars: A New Hope, debuted.<\/p>\n (WARNING: MAJOR spoiler for Spider-Man: Brand New Day below. Stop reading now if you haven\u2019t seen the film.)<\/p>\n The X-Men in the MCU<\/p>\n Mutants are finally coming to the MCU with X-Men, a planned reboot of the franchise directed by Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*) slated for a 2028 release. Marvel is already setting the stage, beginning with the identity of Sadie Sink\u2019s mysterious cloaked figure in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spoiler alert: she plays a young Jean Grey, as much victim as villain.<\/p>\n Joining Sink will be Christopher Abbott (Wolf Man) as Charles Xavier\/Professor X; Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Cyclops; Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) as Emma Frost; Maya Boyd as Storm, Inde Navarrette (Obsession) as Rogue; and Adam Driver (Rise of Skywalker) as Nathan Milbury, aka Mister Sinister. There had been rumors that Charles Melton had been cast as Dr. Hank McCoy\/Beast but later dropped out of the project. We can expect more casting news in the coming months.<\/p>\n X-Men is coming to theaters on May 5 , 2028.<\/p>\n LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian<\/p>\n This animated special is described as a \u201ccomedic retelling of all three seasons\u201d of the live-action series The Mandalorian, with Gavin Hammon voicing The Mandalorian.<\/p>\n The cast also includes David Acord as Grogu\/MA-13; Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto; Bill Burr as Migs; David Pasquesi as Majordomo; Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze; Emily Swallow as the Armorer; Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon; Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand; Nick Nolte as Kuiil; Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano; Taika Waititi as IG-11\/IG-12; Temeura Morrison as Boba Fett; Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth; Carl Lumbly as Greef Karga; Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker\/EV-9D9; Flula Borg as The Client; Marti Matulis as Vane; and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva.<\/p>\n LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian is coming to Disney+ on September 2, 2026. Disney is also launching an official Mandalorian and Grogu podcast that day, which is also when the film arrives on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n
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