Ben Kingsley Additionally Can’t Consider He’s Starring in ‘Marvel Man’

When Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley was cast as the villain of 2013’s Iron Man 3, nobody may have predicted the place issues would go from there. For starters, Kingsley wasn’t truly taking part in iconic Marvel villain the Mandarin; he was Trevor Slattery, a washed-up actor posing because the Mandarin. From there, Kingsley reprised the role in a 2014 quick about his character, All Hail the King, and again in 2021 with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. That, by all accounts, may have been it. But Trevor remains.

Kingsley and Trevor will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe subsequent yr within the new Disney+ show Wonder Man. The present follows each Trevor and a fellow actor named Simon Williams (performed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) as they go after the main roles in a brand new superhero film known as, you guessed it, “Marvel Man.” It’s Kingsley’s finest likelihood but to dive into what makes Trevor tick, and he’s nonetheless a bit in shock that it’s taking place.

“Throughout Shang-Chi, [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and [director] Destin [Daniel Cretton] recommended to me the opportunity of Trevor reappearing for the fourth time in a TV collection,” Kingsley advised Entertainment Weekly. “We didn’t even know the title, and I stated, ‘I’d be thrilled.’ I like revisiting Trevor—there’s so many layers to him. [This] collection does see Trevor earlier than he acquired the position of Mandarin, after which in fact after, so it’s an actual biography—it’s a biopic of Trevor in 4 episodes.”

Marvel Man, which debuts on Disney+ on January 27, 2026, is definitely eight episodes, so we aren’t certain precisely what he means by that final half. However the prospect of seeing the character each earlier than he took on this position that modified his life and what the affect is after could be very intriguing, particularly as he’ll be doing it with Simon Williams, a personality who, as early clips have revealed, truly has powers.

“[Trevor] sees in Simon a good friend, a colleague, however he additionally sees Simon as somebody he can completely exploit for his personal ends,” Kingsley stated. “It’s fairly a traditional, fundamental human situation story. You’re related to anyone and you’ve got an affinity with that individual, however on the identical time, you already know that you just’re going to have to use that individual to get to the place you have to be.”

Learn extra from Kingsley over at Entertainment Weekly. And preserve a watch out for Marvel Man in January. We have now a sense it’s going to be nice.

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