You think there’s a lot of Marvel programming out there now? Just you wait. Even with the unceremonious cancelation of Daredevil, the slightly more ceremonious cancelation of Iron Fist, and the inexcusable cancelation and Jessica Jones and the rest of the Marvel Netflix line (look, I’m not happy about it, either), there will still be plenty of Marvel TV coming your way. Indeed, like a HYDRA, cut off one Marvel TV show and two more shall take its place. Or in this case, one with two leads.
Jac Schaeffer, who wrote Captain Marvel, is writing, producing, and acting as showrunner. The show will also tie-into the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The first batch of Marvel TV shows on the upcoming Disney+ streaming service will include a series following the unlikely pairing of an android and a mutant (?) magic user/probability manipulator, Vision and the Scarlet Witch. Fittingly, Disney revealed that the show will be called WandaVision.
Right now the details about WandaVision are scarce, but it’s possible that more will be revealed during the big Marvel Studios panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ll update this with new details as they become available.
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In the meantime, here’s everything we know so far about WandaVision.
WandaVision Cast
Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen will reprise their big-screen roles, of course.
Announced at Disney’s D23 Expo is that three major players will be joining WandaVision, two from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and one newbie. Kat Dennings and Randall Park will be reprising their MCU roles of Darcy Lewis and Agent Jimmy Woo respectively.
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Kathryn Hahn will also be joining as a “nosey neighbor.” Sounds like WandaVision really is going to explore Wanda and Vis’s blissful domestic life.
Teyonah Parris (If Beale Street Could Talk) has been cast in WandaVision as Monica Rambeau, a character who first appeared as a child in Captain Marvel.
WandaVision Story
Marvel announced during their SDCC 2019 presentation that WandaVision will tie into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Sounds like that could be the show’s solution to the whole “Vision is dead” problem.
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Vision and Scarlet Witch were a staple of Avengers comics for many years, and even supported a limited series that detailed their domestic bliss. According to an interview Elizabeth Olsen had with Variety, Wandavision will at least be partially set in the 1950s.
“There’s quite a few other comic books that we’re pulling from and it’s going to be Wanda and the Vision, and I think at the Disney+ launch chat, they showed a photo of us in the ’50s,” Olsen told Variety. Could this be an example of Wanda’s occasional mental health issues rearing its head, where she is coping with the traumatic death of Vision in Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame by creating a fantasy world/domestic life where he still lives? Could WandaVision be the Marvel Studios equivalent of the completely bonkers and surreal Legion? Time will tell.
WandaVision Release Date
Marvel announced during their SDCC 2019 appearance that WandaVision will come to Disney+ in spring 2021.
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