Wonder Man cancelation
Earlier in the spring, after the Marvel Studios series Wonder Man premiered on Disney+, it was announced that the show would be returning for another season. Fast forward to today and Variety reports that Disney+ will now not be continuing with the show that stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley. A reason was not yet given. According to their sources, the company never reopened the writers’ room and all of the show’s writers have been released from their positions to move on to new projects.
Yahya was excited to come back
Back when the show was initially renewed, Mateen II expressed his excitement to return to the series. “Yeah, this one was special,” he said. “I usually distance myself from the work after it comes out, and distance myself from the conversation and things like that. I think that’s just my healthy way of interacting with this feedback loop. But Wonder Man was a bit different, because it was so special for creatives, for artists, for people with dreams. So, I really did enjoy participating, sort of peripherally, with the conversation about the show, and it touched a lot of people, and that was something that I was really, really proud to be a part of. So I am happy that we got a season 2, and thank you. I’m happy that we got a season 2, and I’m excited to share what we got in store.“
What did we think of Wonder Man?
Wonder Man was a hit, receiving rave reviews and racking up 618 million minutes of viewing time in its first week of release. However, it didn’t seem to be for everyone, as our own Alex Maidy found it to be one of the worst MCU projects he’d seen.
“Because this series avoids feeling like a Marvel Studios production and focuses on a secondary character and tangential lore in the MCU, it ends up wasting a promising concept with a boring series that fails to be an effective satire and even less effective comedy,” he wrote. “I finished Wonder Man, wondering why I spent a full season with nothing to show for it. Wonder Man wastes the great Ben Kingsley and the incredibly talented Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in a lethargic, unengaging series. Easily the worst entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
