Will Yahya Abdul-Mateen II be Wonder Man?
According to rumors, Marvel Studios have held a casting for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, to play the hero of the original series Wonder Man, which will be released on Disney Plus.
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Wonder Man in the Disney Plus series: will it be Yahya Abdul-Mateen II?
Abdul-Mateen II could be one of the protagonists of the new series for Disney Plus: according to a report by ScreenGeek, the Emmy Award-winning actor has recently obtained a casting for a part in Wonder Man, the developing project of Marvel Studios. br>According to the source we learn that Abdul-Mateen II is in talks to play Simon Williams, Wonder Man's alter ego. The other main roles planned for Wonder Man are for an unspecified female lead and the manager of Simon Williams. But at the moment nothing else is known, nothing has even been disclosed regarding other castings.
| ); } Abdul-Mateen II is an award-winning actor who starred as Bobby Seale in the 2020 Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7 and played the iconic Morpheus in the 2021 action film, The Matrix Resurrections. At the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, he won the Best Supporting Actor award in the hit television miniseries Watchmen, for his role as Cal Abar.
The Wonder Man series was announced in June 2022. Overseeing as executive producer, Daniel Cretton, director of Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, has been confirmed. Cretton will also direct some of the show's episodes. In addition, Andrew Guest, writer of some famous series such as Community and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will be the main writer of Wonder Man. And while he is busy with the series for Disney Plus, Cretton will also have to direct the next colossal film in the MCU universe. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
