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Wonder Man Season 2 is officially happening.
Marvel Television’s Wonder Man show premiered on Disney+ earlier this year. Created by Andrew Guest and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Destin Daniel Cretton, the show stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, while Ben Kingsley reprises his MCU role as Trevor Slattery.
What is the Wonder Man Season 2 update?
Per The Hollywood Reporter, it’s now been announced that Marvel has officially renewed Wonder Man for a second season.
Abdul-Mateen II and Kingsley will both reprise their respective roles in Wonder Man Season 2, while Cretton is also coming back as director and executive producer, and Guest is returning as showrunner and executive producer.
Details beyond that remain under wraps at this time. It’s unclear if Wonder Man Season 2 will pick up immediately where the first season left off, or if there will be a time jump. Given that there’s not a whole lot of MCU connectivity featured in the show, it could easily be the former; then again, Marvel Studios also seems to be setting up the Department of Damage Control (DODC) as a big villain in some forthcoming projects, and a time jump might make sense given how big of a role the organization plays in Wonder Man.
The article also notes, “In its first week, Wonder Man racked up 618 million minutes of watch time, according to Nielsen, and landed in the metric tracking service’s top 10 original streaming series. Marvel is now looking capitalize on the response and is planning to conduct an awards campaign for the show. It will be submitted in the comedy series category, according to sources.”
Scoring a second season of an MCU is a rare, albeit not unheard of, feat. Loki and Daredevil: Born Again both got more seasons, while WandaVision morphed into Agatha All Along and the forthcoming VisionQuest show. Before those titles, Netflix MCU shows like the original Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones all had multiple seasons, as did shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter.
The first season of Wonder Man is available to stream on Disney+. Season 2 does not yet have a release date.
