Ahead of its Disney+ debut on October 14, the first two episodes of VisionQuest are set to premiere at this year's BFI London Film Festival on Monday, October 12.
The festival will also feature screenings of Taika Waititi’s Klara And The Sun, Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, James Gray’s mob thriller Paper Tiger, Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, and Travis Knight's Wildwood.
Spoilers ahead.
VisionQuest's recent D23 display revealed some concept art featuring a mysterious fiery figure in the center of a room (or a town?) engulfed in flames, leading to speculation that the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, might be set to make his MCU debut in the WandaVision spin-off.
Hammond was a synthetic human created by Professor Phineas T. Horton and served as a member of The Invaders during WWII. We know this show will spotlight various other android and AI characters, so this classic hero's inclusion did make sense, and Daniel Richtman has now confirmed that he will appear.
The OG Human Torch's costume was previously shown in a glass case in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Star Paul Bettany revealed what excited him most about VisionQuest last year.
“One of the things that’s fun about that is that we finally get to see what it’s like inside Vision’s mind, and it’s more cluttered than you would think. He’s clearly been saving and copying and pasting [the AIs] to keep them alive inside his head. One of them, of course, has to be kept behind a pretty impressive firewall because he’s a psychopath. But he’s a clever one.”
This "psychopath" is almost certainly Ultron, but the Age of Ultron villain is far from the only AI character that'll factor into the story.
Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek, 12 Monkeys, The Rig) also joined the cast as a human version of E.D.I.T.H. (Even Dead, I'm The Hero). This tech was created by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) before being passed on to Peter Parker (Tom Holland) following Iron Man's demise in Avengers: Endgame.
Kerry Condon was rumored to appear as F.R.I.D.A.Y. in human form, but we recently learned that Picard's Orla Brady will actually play the role. James D'Arcy will also be back as Edwin Jarvis in some capacity.
T’nia Miller (Foundation, The Fall of the House of Usher, La Fortuna) is set to play the Bride of Ultron, Jocasta, who is described as "cunning, powerful and driven by revenge."
Finally, Ruaridh Mollica's "Tucker" will be the vessel for Tommy Maximoff, aka Speed.