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‘Wonder Man’ Un-Renewed at Disney+, No Season 2 Coming - The Hollywood Reporter
Entertainment and CultureBy Rick Porter7/30/20261 min read
The Marvel series scored a now rescinded pickup in March.
✨ Key Highlights
- Disney+ has canceled Marvel's Wonder Man, reversing a second-season renewal it had granted in March, leaving the series with just one season.
- The show, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley, joins most other live-action Marvel Disney+ series as a one-and-done, whether by design or cancellation.
- Wonder Man had a strong start, logging 618 million minutes of viewing during its premiere week in late January per Nielsen, but dropped out of the top 10 original streaming shows afterward.
- Despite favorable reviews from critics and audiences—and an Emmy nomination for Abdul-Mateen in the title role—the series was not continued.
- With the cancellation, Loki and Daredevil: Born Again remain the only live-action Marvel Disney+ series to exceed a single season, while WandaVision, Agatha All Along and the upcoming VisionQuest are interconnected.
- Co-creators Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, with Guest as showrunner, had been set to return; executive producers included Marvel's Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Jonathan Schwartz and Brad Winderbaum.
Disney+ will not go ahead with a second season of Marvel’s Wonder Man.
The streamer has canceled the series — despite picking up a second season in March. The un-renewal means that Wonder Man, starr