Casting appears to be heating up for Marvel’s upcoming Vision series (or Vision Quest, depending on who you ask). After re-nabbing James Spader to play the android’s baby daddy Ultron once more in August, the show has now cast Todd Stashwick in a key role.
Per the Hollywood Reporter, the 12 Monkeys actor (and co-writer for Skydance’s Marvel 1943 game) will take on the role of an assassin hot on the trail of Paul Bettany’s new, white Vision and whatever tech is in his posession. If Stashwick is playing a specific Marvel assassin or someone wholly new for the show, that’s currently under wraps, but this reunites him with showrunner Terry Matalas, who previously helmed Star Trek: Picard during its three-season run on Paramount+. The casting comes ahead of the show’s previously reported production date over in England early next year.
The Vision show has been previously dubbed the third part of a trilogy that began with WandaVision and is set to continue with Agatha All Along, which drops later in September. While Ultron is back in the picture, THR notes that it’s not clear if he’ll make his return as a robot again (as was the case in Avengers: Age of Ultron) or potentially take on some kind of human form. (It’s also a big question mark if Elizabeth Olsen will don the crown as the Scarlet Witch once more for this.) At the moment, the show will show us what this Vision has been up to since he was awakened into consciousness by himself during the finale of WandaVision, and any interested parties he has to evade, since he was once property of S.W.O.R.D.
We’ll find out more on Vision Quest—including if that’s even its official name—ahead of the show’s expected premiere window of 2026.
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