(SeaPRwire) – Every Marvel series on Disney+ is treated as a miniseries unless it proves otherwise. From early projects like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to more recent ones like Agatha All Along and Ironheart, most MCU live-action shows have only run for one season. To date, the only exceptions are Loki, which had two seasons, and Daredevil: Born Again, which got a Season 3 renewal before Season 2 even debuted.
Now, though, another series has joined this exclusive group: Wonder Man, the comedy-drama following Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a superpowered individual who has to hide his abilities while working on a reboot of a classic superhero film.
Marvel revealed the renewal with a post featuring two different Wonder Man Season 2 scripts, each watermarked to indicate which star they belong to. One is labeled “Simon Williams,” and the other is “Trevor Slattery”—the character portrayed by Ben Kingsley.
What might Wonder Man Season 2 focus on? In the Season 1 finale, the Department of Damage Control (DODC) locked up Slattery, and Williams completed the Wonder Man movie without him. Now a celebrity, he shadows a DODC guard under the pretense of researching a role, which lets him free Slattery from prison. The final scene showed them flying off together.
While Season 1 centered on the meta backdrop of a superhero movie production, Season 2 seems poised to shift direction. The pair is now on the run from the DODC—hardly ideal for maintaining a Hollywood career. But if the in-universe Wonder Man 2 gets the go-ahead, some favors might be called in to brush this little escapade under the rug, and Simon could somehow get around the laws that bar superheroes from working on superhero films.
Putting the PR problems aside, a new season likely means we’ll get a deeper look at the entertainment industry within the MCU. Given how long Disney+ takes to produce new content, this season might arrive after Avengers: Doomsday, and it’s unclear how that film could alter Earth’s status quo.
Superheroes are facing backlash in the MCU currently—Daredevil comes back to Disney+ tonight, dealing with a New York City that’s fiercely anti-vigilante. With Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the standalone Punisher special all embracing anti-hero themes, both the in-universe Wonder Man 2 and the actual Wonder Man Season 2 could step into a totally different landscape.
Wonder Man is streaming on Disney+.
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