We’ve known for a few months that Terry Matalas, showrunner for the third season of Star Trek: Picard, is working on Marvel’s White Vision series, a spinoff from WandaVision centered on the new Vision created via a melding of Wanda’s grief magic and a robot.
In a recent interview with Inverse, however, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige shared how Matalas’ work on Picard directly impacted his decision to bring the showrunner on board. “That’s how I got to know him,” Feige told Inverse about how Picard put Matalas on his radar. “It was from his amazing [work on Picard Season Three]. I said: ‘This is incredible. I don’t know how this exists. Let me find the person who made this.’”
Feige is known to be a big Trekkie, so it’s no surprise that he tuned into Picard. It’s high praise indeed, however, that he was so drawn in by the last season that he tapped Matalas. Matalas’ previous credits include SYFY’s 12 Monkeys series, which happens to star Aaron Stanford, who has also played Pyro in Marvel films past. Whether Stanford or any other actors that Matalas likes to work with—such as Todd Stashwick, who was on 12 Monkeys and played Captain Shaw on Picard—will make it onto White Vision remains to be seen.
We don’t have details yet on what White Vision will be like, other than the unsurprising news that Paul Bettany will reprise his role. The series was originally on Jac Schaffer’s plate, who was the lead writer on WandaVision, but Schaffer shifted focus to Agatha All Along, leaving the Vision spinoff hanging until Matalas picked up the baton.
White Vision is expected to come out sometime in 2026. In the meantime, you can catch WandaVision on Disney+ and Star Trek: Picard on Paramount+.
