A New ‘Surprise Man’ Trailer Rings In Marvel’s 2026

The New Yr is right here, and in just a few weeks, so will Wonder Man. Marvel’s next TV series left its December 2025 for later this month, and a brand new trailer reminds you it’s not that far off, and at last establishes some huge stakes.

Plot-wise, we’ve identified Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is seeking to e-book the title function in a superhero reboot of the outdated pulp film Surprise Man. Because the trailer says, he’s bought an issue: he’s bought superpowers, and he’s attempting to cover them in order that they don’t harm his possibilities of turning into a big-shot actor. His efforts to cover his secret leads him to former Mandarin Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), and it looks as if issues go properly!…Proper up till the purpose we see Harm Management out in LA and agent Cleary (Arian Moayed) calling Simon an “extraordinary risk.”

Earlier trailers have played coy about what Simon can do, and this new one provides a deeper have a look at his energy set, specifically his tremendous energy and a tease of his ionic powers. (How a lot of a deal with he’s bought on them, and the way he bought them, stays to be seen.) It additionally needs you to look at the present due to its huge award-winning forged: together with namechecking Mateen II’s Emmy win and Kingsley’s Academy award, the trailer highlights Guldbagge Award winner Zlatko Burić, beforehand seen in Superman and right here taking part in Von Kovak, director of the in-universe Surprise Man remake.

All episodes of Surprise Man will drop January 27 on Disney+.

#WonderMan, an 8-episode Marvel Tv sequence, premieres January 27 at 6PM PT solely on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/hC2sgROWnE

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) January 1, 2026

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