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VisionQuest Returns Ultron in Human Form as Vision Faces an Identity Crisis

The Disney+ series stages Ultron and other Stark AIs as human avatars inside Vision’s ‘mind palace’ to probe what makes an artificial being feel human.

Overview

  • VisionQuest will premiere on Disney+ on October 14, 2026, and positions Paul Bettany’s White Vision a few years after WandaVision on the MCU timeline.
  • Showrunner Terry Matalas says James Spader returns as Ultron and will mostly appear in a human guise inside Vision’s mind to let the actors carry emotional beats that CGI cannot.
  • By day Vision lives quietly in Scotland working at a local pub and by night he enters a digital ‘mind palace’ where Ultron and other Stark AIs appear as human avatars and influence his thinking.
  • Ruaridh Mollica plays Tommy Shepherd, who joins Vision on the run after a bounty forces him out of hiding, and Mollica says Tommy’s comic-book bisexuality may not be explicitly referenced in the series.
  • Jac Schaeffer stepped away as creator and Terry Matalas took over with wide creative latitude from Marvel, a change that shaped the show’s focus on AI, memory and the Ship of Theseus question and leaves room for future Vision stories.