VisionQuest Gets October Premiere Date — and James Spader Is Back

VisionQuest, the conclusion of the WandaVision trilogy, premieres October 14 on Disney+
Paul Bettany returns as Vision alongside James Spader, who reprises his role as Ultron from Age of Ultron
First footage shown at Disney’s 2026 Upfronts teases Vision wrestling with his humanity — and Ultron taunting him from inside his own mind
Terry Matalas, showrunner of Star Trek: Picard, is leading the series
A grown-up Tommy Maximoff, Vision and Wanda’s son, will also appear

James Spader is coming back to the MCU — and he’s not going to be nice about it.

During Disney’s 2026 Upfronts presentation in New York City on Tuesday, Paul Bettany took the stage alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Hiddleston to announce that VisionQuest will premiere on Disney+ on October 14. The series is the long-awaited final chapter of the WandaVision trilogy, and it’s bringing back one of the MCU’s most underused villains: Ultron, voiced once again by James Spader — who also appears in human form this time around.

“VisionQuest is the conclusion of the WandaVision trilogy,” Bettany said on stage. “It’s a deeply personal story about identity, purpose, and what it means to be a human, but with robots and lasers.”

What the First Footage Reveals

A brief teaser was screened for advertisers in the room, and based on The Wrap’s description of the footage, it sets up a fascinating internal journey. For most of the clip, Bettany appears in human form, essentially watching Vision’s memories play out like a movie. This is White Vision — the one who flew off at the end of WandaVision after Scarlet Witch’s Hex gave him his memories back, but not the emotional life behind them.

A line from the preview says it all: “I have his memories, but not his feelings. I have his face, but not his virtue.”

And lurking inside that crowded mind? Ultron. Spader’s voice taunts Vision throughout, and when a young Tommy Maximoff briefly appears in the footage, Ultron sneers: “It’s a boy!”

The implication is wild and very Marvel: Vision has been quietly storing the consciousnesses of various MCU AIs inside his own head — keeping them alive, essentially — but one of them requires serious containment. Bettany teased this dynamic last year, saying, “One of the things that’s fun about that is that we finally get to see what it’s like inside Vision’s mind, and it’s more cluttered than you would think. He’s clearly been saving and copying and pasting [the AIs] to keep them alive inside his head.” He added: “One of them, of course, has to be kept behind a pretty impressive firewall because he’s a psychopath. But [Ultron is] a clever one.”

A Stacked Cast Built Around AI Characters

The full cast list makes the scope of VisionQuest clear. Alongside Bettany and Spader, the series features Ruaridh Mollica as a grown-up Tommy Maximoff (a.k.a. Speed), T’Nia Miller as Jocasta, James D’Arcy returning as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., Henry Lewis as Dum-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, Todd Stashwick as Paladin, and Faran Tahir as Raza.

Tommy’s appearance is particularly loaded. In WandaVision, he and his twin brother Billy vanished when Wanda brought down the Westview hex. But Agatha All Along revealed that Billy’s soul had slipped into the body of a recently deceased teenager named William Kaplan — and that Billy had managed to find a body for Tommy too. That’s presumably the Tommy we meet in VisionQuest, now grown and, based on the footage, about to come face to face with the android who is, technically, his father.

Running the whole thing is Terry Matalas, the showrunner who revitalized Star Trek: Picard with its acclaimed third season — a strong signal that Marvel is treating this one as a prestige closer, not just a placeholder series.

The End of an Era

WandaVision debuted in January 2021 as the very first Marvel series on Disney+, and it set the bar high — a formally inventive, emotionally rich love story wrapped in TV-era parody. Agatha All Along followed in 2024, spinning off Kathryn Hahn’s scene-stealing villain. VisionQuest now closes the loop on that whole corner of the MCU.

Elizabeth Olsen, who played Wanda Maximoff through WandaVision, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and beyond, has not been announced for the new series. Whether Scarlet Witch makes an appearance — or whether Vision’s journey is meant to stand on its own — remains one of the bigger questions heading into fall.

For now, fans will likely get a proper trailer at San Diego Comic-Con or D23 this summer. But the promise of Spader back in Ultron mode, Vision reckoning with what it means to feel human, and a grown Tommy Maximoff walking into the picture? That’s more than enough to get excited about.