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Marvel Studios ‘Vision’ Series Casts Todd Stashwick as Mysterious Assassin

Originally posted on Murphy's Multiverse
By Charles Murphy | Last updated Sep 7, 2024 9:37 AM ET

Ahead of an expected January 2025 start of principal photography, Marvel Studios’ upcoming streaming series, currently referred to as Vision Quest , has begun building out its cast around star Paul Bettany. While there’s still next to nothing known about the project, it’s starting to seem as though the ghostly white rebuilt Vision will have his work cut out for him as he attempts to find his place in a change world.

Just a couple of weeks after it was reported that James Spader had signed on to return to the role of Vision’s daddy robot, Ultron, THR has learned that the synthezoid will also have another villain on his tail in the streaming series. According to Borys Kit, TV vet Todd Stashwick has boarded the project as “an assassin who is on the trail of android and the technology he possesses.“

Stashwick has worked with new Vision showrunner Terry Matalas on both Star Trek: Picard and the SyFy series 12 Monkeys which likely means Matalas wrote the part of the mysterious villain with the actor in mind. Stashwick’s resume as a TV actor extends into the previous century and includes work on series such as Heroes, Justified, FX’s The Riches and Fox’s Gotham, where he played Richard Sionis, aka The Mask.

After being destroyed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, Vision’s shell was confiscated by S.W.O.R.D.. Under the supervision of Marvel Studios’ worst villain ever, Tyler Hayward, Vision was reassembled and reactivated as part of Project Cataract in the streaming series WandaVision. After interacting with Wanda’s Hex version of Vision, the new White Vision left Westview and the next chapter of his story will be told when the Vision Quest series hits Disney Plus, presumably in 2026.

Source: THR

This article first appeared on Murphy's Multiverse and was syndicated with permission.

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