The trailer opens on Vision working a pub in human form. The show borrows its name from a John Byrne story that already predicted what WandaVision did to the character.
VisionQuest arrives on Disney+ on Oct. 14, 40 days from now.
The eight-episode series closes the trilogy that began with WandaVision in 2021 and continued through Agatha All Along in 2024.
Its title comes from a comic published in 1989.
Where the VisionQuest title comes from
John Byrne wrote and drew a story in which Vision is kidnapped by government agents, entirely dismantled, and rebuilt into a new colorless body stripped of the original’s memories and emotions.
That is, almost precisely, what S.W.O.R.D. did to Vision in WandaVision.
The White Vision body was built to destroy Wanda, then flooded with the original Vision’s memories. He said, “I am Vision,” flew off, and has not been seen for five years.
Marvel naming the series after the comic that got there first is the clearest signal available about where the story goes.
What the VisionQuest trailer actually shows
The opening is not what anyone expected from a Marvel series.
Vision is working in a British pub, in human form, closing up for the night.
A coworker says, “Before you started working here, I remember when you would come in all the time with that redhead.” Vision looks at the initials “W+V” carved into the bar. “I was a different person back then.”
Asked whether anyone is waiting for him at home, he answers, “No, no. Home is just me.”
Then he steps into a closet at the back of the pub, reverts to his android form, and travels to a home that exists inside his own head.
James Spader’s Ultron has a body now
The return is more substantial than a voice credit.
Spader last played Ultron in 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” In VisionQuest he appears in the flesh, as a bearded, bespectacled human avatar inside Vision’s mind.
He is not alone in there. Vision also encounters human versions of J.A.R.V.I.S., F.R.I.D.A.Y. and E.D.I.T.H., the AI systems that have run through the Iron Man and Spider-Man films.
Vision narrates his own problem. “Who am I? I was an Avenger. But I’m not a hero anymore. I have his face, but not his virtue. All I have is his name.”
He believes his family with Wanda was never real. Ultron shows him otherwise.
What Bettany and Spader said at D23
The stage exchange was funnier than the trailer.
“He’s been an Avenger, a father, a partner to Wanda,” Paul Bettany said. “He made the ultimate sacrifice and rather inconveniently died several times, which I can tell you is an act that can make longterm financial planning difficult.”
“Frankly, I can’t believe it took you so long to turn to me,” Spader added. “Everyone knows that Ultron has long been fascinated by humanity.”
“I seem to recall you were most interested in wiping them out,” Bettany replied.
Who else is in VisionQuest
The ensemble leans heavily on British and genre television.
Todd Stashwick of “12 Monkeys,” T’Nia Miller of “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” Emily Hampshire of “Schitt’s Creek,” and James D’Arcy all appear, alongside Ruaridh Mollica, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Lauren Morais, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer.
Faran Tahir returns as Raza, the Ten Rings leader from the first “Iron Man.”
Who is making VisionQuest
Terry Matalas showruns, coming off “Star Trek: Picard.”
Christopher J. Byrne, Gandja Monteiro, Vincenzo Natali and Matalas direct. Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos and Trevor Waterson executive produce alongside Matalas and Byrne.
What else Marvel has coming
VisionQuest releases ahead of two films.
“Avengers: Doomsday” opens Dec. 18 with tickets already on sale and Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.
The untitled X-Men film follows on May 5, 2028, with Adam Driver as Mister Sinister.
Marvel’s Wolverine launches on PlayStation 5 on Sept. 15, rated M.
An earlier version of the VisionQuest trailer screened for fans at New York Comic Con in 2025. The D23 cut is the first released publicly.
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Hat Tips:
TV Insider, the John Byrne 1989 comic origin of the title, the eight-episode count and the Spader mind-space detail
Variety, the pub scene dialogue and the W+V carving
TVLine, the WandaVision finale recap and the supporting cast credits
Marvel, the full D23 stage exchange between Bettany and Spader and the complete cast list
TechMyMoney, the poster description and the director lineup
FirstShowing, the executive producer credits and Vision’s narration
The Main Street Mouse, the AI personas and the bounty plot detail