Marvel Television has set VisionQuest — the long-incubating WandaVision spinoff — for October 14, 2026 on Disney+. Paul Bettany returns as Vision, James Spader returns as Ultron for the first time since 2015, and Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard) showruns. The 8-episode series closes the trilogy that began with WandaVision.
Marvel Studios' streaming slate has been in revision since 2024, with several Disney+ projects delayed, repurposed, or quietly shelved. VisionQuest — the proper Vision-focused spinoff originally teased at the end of WandaVision (2021) — has finally locked an October 14, 2026 premiere date, confirmed at Disney's 2026 Upfronts presentation. The 8-episode series brings Paul Bettany back to the MCU after a five-year hiatus.
The hook: this isn't the original Vision. WandaVision's epilogue revealed that S.W.O.R.D. had reassembled Vision's white-painted, memory-wiped body — the same Vision who copied his consciousness to Wanda's creation in the show's finale. VisionQuest picks up that thread: a Vision with the original character's body and a fractured sense of identity, navigating what it means to be the same person while not being the same person.
The biggest narrative reveal is James Spader's return as Ultron — his first MCU appearance since Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Marvel Studios has not confirmed how Ultron returns (Ultron was destroyed at the end of Age of Ultron, with his consciousness scattered) but Spader's signature deadpan menace makes the casting alone a major draw. Showrunner Terry Matalas — coming off the universally-acclaimed third season of Star Trek: Picard — has the credentials to handle the philosophical and emotional stakes of a Vision-Ultron confrontation with the depth it deserves.
The supporting cast is also significant. James D'Arcy returns as Edwin Jarvis (the original AI consciousness from which Vision derived his behavioral patterns), a long-awaited fan request that bridges Agent Carter continuity back into the MCU mainline. Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer round out the human ensemble. Orla Brady, Emily Hampshire, and Ruaridh Mollica fill out the broader cast.
VisionQuest closes a trilogy: WandaVision (2021), Agatha All Along (2024), and now VisionQuest (2026). Together the three projects represent one of Marvel Studios' most thematically coherent narrative arcs — small-scale character studies wrapped in genre-defying TV experiments. The trilogy explored grief (WandaVision), witchcraft and identity (Agatha), and now consciousness and what makes a person (VisionQuest).
For broader Phase 6 context, see our MCU Phase 6 Roadmap and our coverage of Avengers: Age of Ultron for the Ultron backstory. Whether Vision's reconstruction here connects to the original Vision's story in Avengers: Doomsday remains carefully unannounced — but Marvel Studios releasing both projects in the same December-October window strongly suggests a narrative through-line.