Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton is lining up a new collaboration with Marvel for Disney+.
The filmmaker brought The Legend of the Ten Rings to cinemas last year, and was already confirmed to be writing a big-screen sequel for Marvel Studios.
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Cretton will be producing a series based on Wonder Man, as well as directing at least one episode of the live-action show.
Cretton is teaming up with showrunner Andrew Guest, a recent veteran of Disney+'s Hawkeye series. He has also worked on 30 Rock, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Community.
It makes sense for Marvel to turn to a comedy veteran since Wonder Man himself has often been involved in a comedic storylines in the comics.
Simon Williams moonlights as a superhero (most notably in the West Coast Avengers with WandaVision's Scarlet Witch and The Vision), but his day job is as a Hollywood B-actor and stuntman starring in schlocky genre movies.
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Wonder Man was created by Marvel Comics icons Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Don Heck as a villain in 1964, before later becoming more of a bumbling hero in the 1980s. Simon has been associated with the Defenders and SHIELD throughout the decades.
Marvel Studios actually cut a previous reference to Wonder Man in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, where Simon was starring in an in-universe biopic for Tony Stark.
Nathan Fillion actually shot footage for a scene that would have taken place at a 'Simon Williams Film Festival', but it ended up on the cutting room floor.
THR reports that this new take on Wonder Man is in early development, but could begin filming as early as 2023.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 and Vol 2 are available now. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is coming to Disney+ later this year, and then Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 arrives on May 5, 2023.
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