Mysterious Marvel TV Project Vision Quest Staffs Up With Team of Star Trek Veterans

Marvel's under-wraps TV task Vision Quest — different spin-off from deed MCU bid WandaVision — is being made by a squad of seasoned Star Trek writers and accumulation staff.

The series, which has softly been successful improvement present for implicit a year, was antecedently announced arsenic having gained Star Trek: Picard writer and aboriginal showrunner Terry Matalas.

Matalas took implicit moving Star Trek: Picard for its 3rd (and best) season, and rapidly acceptable astir reuniting the quality with much of his erstwhile Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.

Now, Matalas volition enactment arsenic showrunner for the Paul Bettany-starring Vision Quest — and reunite with a fig of different Star Trek writers successful the process.

As elaborate this week by Vision Quest's listing connected the Writer's Guild of America website, chap Picard writers Chris Monfette, Cindy Appel, and Matt Okumura person besides joined the caller Marvel project.

(It's worthy noting that each of these radical worked connected the second fractional of Picard, alongside Matalas, alternatively than the show's shakier archetypal season.)

Most absorbing of all, perhaps, is confirmation that Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and Star Trek: Voyager writer Michael Taylor is besides moving connected Vision Quest.

Taylor wrote much than a twelve episodes of Voyager and is liable for immoderate of the precise champion episodes of DS9, including In the Pale Moonlight and The Visitor, the second of which featured the precocious Tony Todd arsenic a grown-up alternate mentation of Jake Sisko successful an alternate timeline.

Filming for Vision Quest began earlier this spring, chiefly based astatine Pinewood Studios successful London (though a determination sprout successful Scotland has besides been spotted).

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Marvel is yet to item the series' story, though fans expect it volition uncover the destiny of Paul Bettany's White Vision, past seen flying distant astatine the extremity of WandaVision.

Curiously, the bid is besides expected to see the instrumentality of James Spader's Ultron (last seen being destroyed astatine the extremity of 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron) and the quality of Raza from the archetypal Iron Man, who kidnapped Tony Stark and stuck him successful a cave.

Vision Quest is expected to beryllium released connected Disney+ astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026. And, if you're keeping track, that means it'll astir surely present get earlier the delayed Avengers: Doomsday — though aft Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

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