Disney gives Wonder Man and Trevor a callback for season two

We might never get an answer to such questions, but Wonder Man fans will be happy to hear that Simon and his old pal the Mandarin, a.k.a. Trevor Slattery, passed the audition. Marvel Television’s Wonder Man is returning for season two, according to The Hollywood Reporter. TV’s Golden Couple, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley, playing Simon and Trevor, are set to return, and so is the show’s co-creators Destin Daniel Crettin and Andrew Guest. Crettin, who directed the Trevor reclamation project, Shang-Chi, and the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, will return direct in season two, with Guest showrunning.

It’s somewhat unsurprising that Marvel would give another season to Wonder Man, given how popular Hollywood satires are at the moment. With The Studio and The Comeback lighting up competing streamers, certainly Disney needs to keep its version of things going. But the show has done well with critics and viewers, which made Wonder Man one of Disney’s top shows in January. Honestly, it’s a testament to Marvel loyalty that fans will still take a chance on a Wonder Man show, despite the character in question being Wonder Man. Even after Secret Invasion, Marvel can still hook people.

Part of the appeal to Wonder Man, though, is that it’s a Marvel show that isn’t necessarily about superheroes. It’s about real heroes: Actors. The show follows Mateen’s Simon as he attempts to land a role in an in-universe Wonder Man reboot, enlisting Trevor as an acting coach. In his B- review for The A.V. Club, critic Stephen Robinson compared the series to “the Netflix Marvel series from a decade ago, which seemed to exist in their own separate realities from the more bombastic MCU of the movies. This is perhaps not the show for anyone interested in traditional frenzied battles between costumed characters.” Marvel knows what people want: Fewer costumed avengers battling for the universe and more superheroes doing self-tape auditions.