For a while there, “Wonder Man” felt like the kind of Marvel project that might vanish into the company’s infamous TV recalibration — a weird side road too odd to survive the franchise’s belt-tightening, with rumors floating that the show had been scrapped. Instead, it’s coming back. Marvel has renewed “Wonder Man” for a second season at Disney+, with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II returning as Simon Williams and Ben Kingsley back as Trevor Slattery.
Created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest (“Hawkeye”), the eight-episode series followed Simon, a struggling actor pulled into Trevor’s orbit and into the chaos of a Hollywood production built around an in-universe version of Wonder Man. That setup gave the show a looser, more sideways energy than most of Marvel’s television output — part industry satire, part character study, part superhero absurdity (read our review).
Those with industry knowledge will know how meaningful the pick-up was, given how close the show came to disappearing. As Guest said earlier this year, the series survived cancellation “by the skin of our teeth” several times during Marvel’s Disney+ retrenchment, and then had to endure the production limbo caused by the 2023 strikes. That backstory helps explain why “Wonder Man” felt so unusually self-contained in the first place — it was built on the edge of a system already pulling back.
Now it gets another shot. Abdul-Mateen is not leaving genre territory anytime soon. He next leads Netflix’s “Man on Fire,” which premieres April 30. Cretton’s next Marvel film, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” arrives in theaters July 31, and “Wonder Man” heads into season two with something rare for franchise television: the sense that it lived to fight another day because it actually earned one.
Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery will return for Marvel Television's #WonderMan Season 2, co-created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/XnOBYrYHaA
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 23, 2026
