Marvel’s under-wraps TV project Vision Quest — another spin-off from hit MCU series WandaVision — is being made by a team of veteran Star Trek writers and production staff.
The series, which has quietly been in development now for over a year, was previously announced as having gained Star Trek: Picard writer and later showrunner Terry Matalas.
Matalas took over running Star Trek: Picard for its third (and best) season, and quickly set about reuniting the character with more of his former Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.
Now, Matalas will act as showrunner for the Paul Bettany-starring Vision Quest — and reunite with a number of other Star Trek writers in the process.
As detailed this week by Vision Quest’s listing on the Writer’s Guild of America website, fellow Picard writers Chris Monfette, Cindy Appel, and Matt Okumura have also joined the new Marvel project.
(It’s worth noting that all of these people worked on the latter half of Picard, alongside Matalas, rather than the show’s shakier first season.)
Most interesting of all, perhaps, is confirmation that Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and Star Trek: Voyager writer Michael Taylor is also working on Vision Quest.
Taylor wrote more than a dozen episodes of Voyager and is responsible for some of the very best episodes of DS9, including In the Pale Moonlight and The Visitor, the latter of which featured the late Tony Todd as a grown-up alternate version of Jake Sisko in an alternate timeline.
Filming for Vision Quest began earlier this spring, primarily based at Pinewood Studios in London (though a location shoot in Scotland has also been spotted).
Filming is due to start in our village tomorrow. Sources 🕵️ say it’s Marvel’s Vision series with the working title, “Tin Man”, starring Paul Bettany. The pub’s name has changed to The Old Selkie and a flag of Scotland is flying. #Chilterns 🎥 pic.twitter.com/O7sfMmMxdg
— Jane (@JaneFranklin99) March 31, 2025
Marvel is yet to detail the series’ story, though fans expect it will reveal the fate of Paul Bettany’s White Vision, last seen flying away at the end of WandaVision.
Curiously, the series is also expected to include the return of James Spader’s Ultron (last seen being destroyed at the end of 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron) and the character of Raza from the original Iron Man, who kidnapped Tony Stark and stuck him in a cave.
Vision Quest is expected to be released on Disney+ at some point in 2026. And, if you’re keeping track, that means it’ll almost certainly now arrive before the delayed Avengers: Doomsday — although after Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
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