Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer

With its premiere just two weeks away, Marvel Studios has dropped one last trailer for the limited series, VisionQuest, which will complete the trilogy begun with WandaVision and Agatha All Along.

(Spoilers for WandaVision and Agatha All Along below.)

As previously reported, Marvel’s streaming TV portfolio has kind of been all over the place: a handful of hits, a few misses, and a bunch of middling offerings. One standout was WandaVision, followed by an excellent sequel (of sorts), Agatha All Along. VisionQuest will complete the trilogy. Vision (Paul Bettany) died in Infinity War, but WandaVision resurrected an all-white version whose memories were restored in the finale. We finally get to learn what happened afterward.

Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponize him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision’s son, reincarnate. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron’s influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if he’s to survive.

Bettany is returning as Vision, along with James Spader as Ultron. Agatha All Along gave us a new Billy Maximoff, whose soul took over the dying body of another teen as Wanda’s spell unraveled at the end of WandaVision. Agatha helped Billy track down the soul of his twin, Tommy (aka Speed), and placed him into the body of a teen boy who drowned, Thomas Shepherd, both played here by Ruaridh Mollica.

The cast also includes Todd Stashwick as a bounty hunter named Paradin; T’Nia Miller as a vengeful robot named Jocasta; Emily Hampshire as EDITH, aka Tony Stark’s augmented reality security and defense system; Orla Brady as FRIDAY, Stark’s replacement AI system for JARVIS; and James D’Arcy as JARVIS. Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer play DUME and U, respectively, two of Stark’s robot workshop assistants.

In addition, Lauren Morais plays Lisa Molinari; Diane Morgan plays an associate of Paladin; Cristian Lavin plays a mercenary; and Mary McDonnell will appear in an as-yet-undisclosed role. And Faran Tahir will be back as Raza, leader of the Ten Rings, who kidnapped Tony Stark in 2008’s Iron Man.

Marvel unveiled the first trailer at D23 in August, introducing Vision’s existential crisis and the primary characters inhabiting his interior mindscape. This new trailer opens with Vision (in human form) entering a reception area and announcing that he’s there “for the trap.” A gunfight ensues before we return to Vision’s interior world. “[The original] Vision was a hero,” Vision says. “An Avenger. I have his memories, but not his virtue.”

The “impossibly cruel and callous” Ultron seeks to exploit Vision’s confusion, using Tommy as leverage. “Free me, and save your son,” Ultron demands, all so he can “finish what I started all those years ago.” (Fans will recall that in Age of Ultron, the newly sentient AI wanted to wipe out humanity in order to save Earth. We doubt his intentions have changed much.)

VisionQuest premieres October 14 on Disney+.

Jennifer OuelletteSenior Writer
Jennifer OuelletteSenior Writer
Jennifer is a senior writer at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.

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