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Marvel Studios is hiding a Trevor Slattery biopic inside Disney+'s Wonder Man TV series, and he wants co-billing
The scene-stealer from Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi is finally getting the spotlight in Marvel Studios' next Disney+ series, Wonder Man
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When it came to bringing Ben Kingsley back to the role of actor-turned-accidental-terrorist-turned-actor-again Trevor Slattery for the upcoming Disney+ series Wonder Man, it turns out that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige didn’t need to work too hard… or work hard at all, really.
“During [filming] Shang-Chi, Kevin Feige and [director] Destin [Daniel Cretton] suggested to me the possibility of Trevor reappearing for the fourth time in a TV series," Kingsley told Entertainment Weekly. "We didn't even know the title, and I said, 'I'd be thrilled.' I love revisiting Trevor — there's so many layers to him.”
Those layers are set to be pulled back somewhat in the upcoming eight-episode MCU series launching January on Disney+, which may be named after the on-screen alter-ego of actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), but is almost as much the story of Slattery himself, according to Kingsley. And just in time, after his appearances in Iron Man 3, Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings.
“He manages to escape from the real Mandarin and from Shang-Chi land, and he flies back into Hollywood to give his career a second chance and to prove to his dear mother Dorothy, who always had faith in him and his talents, that he was truly the actor his mom always hoped he would be and that he always aspired to be," Kingsley teased about Trevor Slattery’s journey in the show. "And a series of extraordinary events place him exactly in that space, which crowns him and compromises him at the same time. He's pulled in two directions at the same time.”
And as if that isn’t enough, the history of the one-time (fake) Mandarin will also be explored, the actor promises, saying that Wonder Man “does see Trevor before he got the role of Mandarin, and then of course after, so t’s a real biography — it’s a biopic of Trevor in four episodes.”
Okay, now we’re interested — and not just because of the “four episodes” mention, considering that’s only half of Wonder Man’s run. The more Trevor Slattery the better, as far as we’re concerned. Can we get him as the main villain for Avengers: Secret Wars, please?
Wonder Man debuts on Disney+ January 27.
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