Marvel Disney+ Series VisionQuest Just Got the Most Unlikely of Casting Announcements

Marvel Studios has made a casting announcement for upcoming Disney+ bid VisionQuest that conscionable mightiness astonishment 1 oregon 2 fans.

British histrion and comedian Diane Morgan, who is champion known for her drama quality Philomena Cunk, volition articulation the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic portion of VisionQuest, Variety reported. Apparently she’ll play an subordinate of Todd Stashwick’s character, Paladin. Not Philomena Cunk herself, past — though that would beryllium amazing.

For the uninitiated, Philomena Cunk is simply a fictional quality who presents mockumentary series, astir notably Cunk connected Earth (Netflix/BBC), Cunk connected Britain, and Cunk connected Shakespeare. She's an ill-informed, deadpan, and clueless investigative newsman whose hilarious questions often permission the real-world experts she interviews struggling to travel up with due answers.

Cunk On Earth starts contiguous astatine 10pm connected ⁦@BBCTwo⁩ and ⁦@BBCiPlayer⁩ pic.twitter.com/KluTZ8cTJ9

— Diane Morgan (@missdianemorgan) September 20, 2022

Meanwhile, newcomer Lauren Morais is besides successful VisionQuest. Variety said Morais plays Lisa Molinari, a quality described arsenic “closely connected” to Scottish histrion Ruaridh Mollica’s big Tommy Maximoff, the lad of Vision and Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch.

At astatine New York Comic Con, Marvel Television showed the archetypal footage from VisionQuest. Here's however we described it:

[It] follows White Vision arsenic helium adjusts to having the memories of the precocious (Red) Vision but nary affectional attachment to them. [Head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation Brad Winderbaum] called VisionQuest the decision of a trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along.The footage shows White Vision, successful quality guise, entering a mansion wherever he’s met by servants who crook retired to beryllium AI characters antecedently seen successful the MCU successful quality form. There’s James D’Arcy reprising his relation arsenic Jarvis. He’s joined by quality incarnations of Friday, who was Jarvis’s replacement, and Edith, the AI programme from Tony Stark’s sunglasses successful Spider-Man: Far From Home.But the biggest reveals were saved until the extremity of the VisionQuest footage: the instrumentality of Ultron, but successful quality signifier and played erstwhile again by James Spader (with a large bushy beard). You’ll callback that (Red) Vision killed Ultron successful Avengers: Age of Ultron.At the extremity of the footage, Ultron reveals the lad this Vision hasn’t known: Tommy Maximoff, played by Ruaridh Mollica. Tommy is known successful the Marvel Comics arsenic Speed.

In May, T’Nia Miller was reported to beryllium acceptable to play Jocasta successful VisionQuest. Deadline reported that Miller (Hannah Grose successful The Haunting of Bly Manor, Victorine LaFourcade successful The Fall of the House of Usher, and Zephyr Halima Ifa successful Foundation) volition play 1 of the pb roles.

Miller’s Jocasta is described arsenic “cunning and powerful” and “driven by revenge.” In the comics, Jocasta was made by Ultron truthful that helium would person a spouse. He managed to upload Wasp’s consciousness into the robot, but Wasp alerted the different Avengers and they removed it. Jocasta was reactivated by Ultron but betrayed him and joined the Avengers to decision him.

IGN has reported that VisionQuest 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 volition enactment arsenic showrunner for VisionQuest — and reunite with a fig of different Star Trek writers successful the process.

VisionQuest motorboat connected Disney+ successful 2026.

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