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

The New 12 months 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 massive stakes.

Plot-wise, we’ve recognized Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is seeking to ebook the title position in a superhero reboot of the previous pulp film Surprise Man. Because the trailer says, he’s obtained an issue: he’s obtained superpowers, and he’s attempting to cover them so that they don’t harm his probabilities of changing 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 menace.”

Earlier trailers have played coy about what Simon can do, and this new one provides a deeper take 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 obtained on them, and the way he obtained them, stays to be seen.) It additionally needs you to observe the present due to its massive 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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