WandaVision heralded the MCU’s move to full-length stories on Disney+, and some of the show’s storylines have already continued in recent and upcoming Marvel projects. These include the continuation of Wanda Maximoff’s story in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessMonica Rambeau’s newly acquired powers that lead her to the miraclesand villain Agatha Harkness gets her own Disney+ series, Coven of Chaos. However, there is a hanging thread that is finally about to get to what happened to Paul Bettany’s White Vision, as a new rumor has suggested a Disney+ series based on the character could be in development.
Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider revealed the latest rumors of Vision’s return to the MCU on The hot microphone podcast, and according to sources, the new series has the interesting working title Vision Quest. The meaning of the title becomes clear when you consider that it is the name of a Marvel Comics arc featuring the character, where the character is dismantled, his brain is wiped and his skin turns white. In the West Coast Avengers In the story, he also discovers details about his children with Wanda and how they were nothing but figments of Wanda’s imagination, caused by a ‘hysterical pregnancy’. Sounds familiar?
While many of the Vision Quest story was edited in WandaVision’s series, it’s likely that the story of a Vision series could be more of a sequel to that comic book arc, as Vision is now somewhere in the MCU world, with his memory restored but without the power of an infinite stone within him. Whether the series will explore how Vision copes with his newly recovered memories of his past existence is unknown, and it is of course questionable whether it will also lead to a reunion with Wanda after the events of Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness.
Will Paul Bettany reprise his role as a visionary?
Paul Bettany previously said he doesn’t know if he’ll be back to play Vision in the MCU again. After the climax of WandaVision, it seemed like there was some unfinished business for White Vision, given that very few Marvel characters are allowed to simply zoom into the sky never to be seen again. At the time, Bettany said:
“I don’t have a contract. I don’t know. I don’t know that at all. And all I know is, as far as this kind of pressing goes for an Emmy push, that’s for a limited series. So it doesn’t look like it I mean, I think it would be hard to introduce White Vision and somehow not hang out with him, but we didn’t talk about that.”
Perhaps that discussion is now over and Vision could be heading to the MCU in the relatively near future, with Bettany reprising his role. Where his new story will take him and how it will tie in with the rest of the MCU is something that will only be revealed when Kevin Feige believes the time is right to do so.