Wonder Man (TV series)
Wonder Man is an American television series created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics character Simon Williams / Wonder Man. It is the 17th television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from Marvel Studios and was produced under its Marvel Television label. Sharing continuity with the films of the MCU, the series follows actors Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery as they try to land roles in a remake of the superhero film Wonder Man.
Season 1
[edit]"Matinee"
[edit]- Trevor Slattery: It's a wonderful thing, not thinking too much. Served me well most of my life.
- Trevor Slattery: John Gielgud used to have me whip him with a belt across his bare ass every night before curtain up, and that was before we were friends. Then things got weird.
- Trevor Slattery: [about acting] Nature, that's our job. To understand the world around us and ourselves within it. The real work isn't digging for subtext or parsing a writer's intent. The real work is living.
- Simon Williams: But I remember you from that Omnibus episode you did in the '70s. You played Edgar Allan Poe. "The Need for Nightmare."
- Trevor Slattery: Well, well, well... Not too many people remember that old gem, including me. How was I?
- Trevor Slattery: You know, some of us actually believe in supporting each other. Take it from someone who's eaten shit on stage more times than he can count. Not literally, mind you.
- Simon Williams: Nah, that's not my process.
- Trevor Slattery: Well, your process can go blow a spider.
"Self-Tape"
[edit]- Joe Pantoliano: No, look, look... Show business, it's crazy. It... It's built on a foundation of insanity, so success is the collateral you use to build something real for yourself.
"Pacoima"
[edit]- Simon Williams: Well, I've never been to Pacoima before.
- Trevor Slattery: I grew up there, and I promise you haven't missed anything. It's basically Cleveland with palm trees.
- Simon Williams: Well, I've never been to Cleveland either.
"Doorman"
[edit]- DeMarr Davis: But I can't act.
- Josh Gad: Who cares? I can't act. It's never stopped me from being an actor.
"Found Footage"
[edit]- Simon Williams: I'm just tryin' to process it, honestly.
- Trevor Slattery: No, don't process it, Simon. Enjoy it, for heaven's sake.
- Trevor Slattery: Simon, you've got to try one. I feel like Stevie Nicks having coke blown up her bunghole.
- Trevor Slattery: Are you gonna use super speed or what?
- Simon Williams: I'm gonna use my car, Trevor.
- Trevor Slattery: Does that mean you do or do not have super speed?
- Simon Williams: Trevor, would you please focus?
- Trevor Slattery: Hmph. What is there for me to focus on? I'm in the passenger seat.
- Simon Williams: I don't know. Just look around or something.
"Callback"
[edit]- Trevor Slattery: Come on. Let's both stay loose and relaxed.
- Simon Williams: What? No. You know I can't do either one of those things.
- Trevor Slattery: No, I had a feeling it would all sort itself out.
- Simon Williams: You say that about a lot of stuff, don't you?
- Von Kovak: Our ideas about heroes and gods, they only get in the way. It's too difficult to comprehend them. So, let's get past them. Let's... Let's find the human underneath. I want you to see who you really are. I want us to explore the place between fiction and non-fiction.
- Von Kovak: We are going to make the last movie on Earth because no one will have the balls to make another.
"Kathy Friedman"
[edit]- Trevor Slattery: [about his costume pants] Well, it's a bit snug in the undercarriage, to be honest. I might want to have babies one day.
- Simon Williams: Trev, what if I stab my arugula salad listlessly?
- Trevor Slattery: Never. You're very assertive with your fork.
- Trevor Slattery: You work on being more charming, and I find it helpful to use people's names. You know, ask them about themselves?
- Simon Williams: That kind of bullshit actually works?
- Trevor Slattery: Yeah, you'd be amazed.
- Trevor Slattery: How you feeling?
- Simon Williams: Worried.
- Trevor Slattery: Course you are. You wouldn't be you otherwise.
"Yucca Valley"
[edit]- Von Kovak: And you had a dream last night, that your mother was cooking a hedgehog for supper.
- Simon Williams: A hedgehog?
- Von Kovak: Yes, I think so. I'd like to see what that inspires.
Cast
[edit]- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams
- X Mayo as as Janelle Jackson
- Zlatko Burić as Von Kovak
- Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery
- Arian Moayed as P. Cleary
- Joe Pantoliano as himself
- Byron Bowers as DeMarr Davis / Doorman
- Josh Gad as himself
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