Emmy winning actor James Spader is set to reprise his role as Ultron in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Vision Quest.
Spader last appeared as Ultron in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron where Tony Stark and Bruce Banner created Ultron as a global defense program. However, Ultron believed he must eradicate humanity to save Earth and created Vision to host his consciousness and help him achieve his goal. But the Avengers interrupted the AI transfer and installed JARVIS instead, and with help of the Mind Stone, Vision took on an intelligence of his own and chose to side with the Avengers and help defeat Ultron. In the final minutes of Age of Ultron, Vision came face-to-face with Ultron’s last body, and seemingly destroyed it — but that attack was just offscreen enough to leave the possibility that Ultron could have survived — or maybe the Ultron consciousness still lurks within Vision’s programming somewhere.
Ultron appeared in the animated series What If…?, but he was voiced there by Ross Marquand, the talented voice actor who also filled in for Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull in Avengers: Endgame.
After dying at the hands of Thanos in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, Vision was recreated by a grieving Wanda Maximoff’s magic. A separate white version of Vision was rebuilt by S.W.O.R.D after his body was recovered from Wakanda. After the two Visions battled in the “WandaVision” finale, White Vision’s memories were restored and he immediately flew off to find answers. Meanwhile, the Vision manifested by Wanda faded from existence after she chose to drop the Hex over Westview.
Vision Quest will see the return of actor Paul Bettany as Vision and the show will be steered by “Star Trek: Picard” executive producer Terry Matalas.
The series is meant to be the third part of a trilogy that started with WandaVision and continues in Agatha All Along, which debuts in September on Disney+.
Vision Quest will start filming in England in January 2025 and is set to debut on Disney+ in 2026.
