‘Vision Quest’ Footage: Paul Bettany Stars as White Vision Alongside Ultron, Human Versions of Jarvis and Friday — Plus His Son Tommy

Vision fans have been asking themselves “What is grief, if not love persevering?” ever since Paul Bettany‘s android character died but then was reanimated in 2021’s Disney+ series “WandaVision.”

Marvel released the first trailer for “Vision Quest,” the upcoming series starring Bettany’s Vision and his first appearance in the MCU since “WandaVision,” exclusively to fans at New York Comic Con. The trailer showed Bettany back as White Vision from the ending of “WandaVision,” plus a more human version. There was also human versions of James Spader, who voiced Ultron in the second “Avengers” movie, and the AI programs Jarvis, Friday and Edith. At the end of the trailer, there was a brief shot of Tommy, Vision and Wanda’s son that appeared as a child in “WandaVision.”

ASpader is reprising his role from “Avengers: Age of Ultron” as the titular genocidal AI, who Vision appeared to destroy at the end of the film (though it happened off camera). The show co-stars Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Ruaridh Mollica and Emily Hampshire. Terry Matalas (“Star Trek: Picard”) created the show and is the showrunner and executive producer.

One of the last times Marvel fans saw Vision was when he had been killed by Thanos in “Avengers: Infinity War.” The purple supervillain had ripped the Mind Stone from Vision’s forehead, killing him instantly before he snapped and turned half the universe into dust. Then Vision was mysteriously reanimated and lived a peaceful, domestic life in “WandaVision” opposite Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch. However, it was slowly unveiled in the miniseries that Wanda was mentally unstable, and the quiet, TV sitcom-inspired life she lived with Vision was all a magical conjuring she had created out of her grief. It’s revealed that Wanda had stolen Vision’s lifeless body from the government organization S.W.O.R.D. and reanimated it with her dark, powerful magic. Wanda’s recreation of Vision had no memories of his former life nor death, and he soon fights a government-controlled, all-white Vision sent to destroy him. The evil White Vision regains all of his previous memories and flies off by himself.

Wanda then reappeared in 2022’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” where she undergoes a heel turn and becomes the film’s main villain. In 2024, Joe Locke (“Heartstopper”) played Wanda and Vision’s son Billy in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along,” starring Kathryn Hahn as the witch Agatha Harkness. That series ended with Agatha and Billy setting off to find Billy’s brother Tommy.