New TV Spots For Marvel's WANDAVISION and Kevin Feige on Why They Are Telling This Particular Story
We’ve got a couple of new TV spots to share with you for Marvel’s highly anticipated series WandaVision, which drops on Disney+ soon! Many critics have already had a chance to watch the first three episodes of the series and they are absolutley loving it.
Marvel Studios’ WandaVision blends the style of classic sitcoms with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany)—two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Olsen and Paul Bettany will be joined by Teyonah Parris as the grown-up version of Monica Rambeau, Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness, Kat Dennings reprising her role as Darcy Lewis, and Randall Park returning as FBI Agent Jimmy Woo from Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Marvel Studios Head Kevin Feige recently talked about the show and explained why they are telling this particular story with these characters. He told Variety:
“The answer for the show is because Wanda and Vision are great characters in the comics that we don’t scratch the surface of in the movies, played by actors who are so spectacular, and we’ve only scratched the surface of what they can do. Putting the spotlight on those actors playing those characters was the primary reason to want to make “WandaVision.” The way we made it is in large part because I spent an inordinate amount of time as a child watching TV and syndicated repeats of lots of sitcoms. I’m old enough that I remember when Nick at Nite was a new thing.
“I really became psychologically attached to a lot of these pretend TV characters. It was the one aspect of my youth and what turned me into the person I am today [that] we’ve never been able to really utilize. My love of all sorts of movies and genre movies has absolutely been poured into all 23 movies you’ve seen us make at Marvel Studios already, but that aspect of my past, I hadn’t even considered necessarily being able to do anything with.
“The two things that changed that was seeing the [2016] comic miniseries ‘The Vision’ [by writer Tom King and artists Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Mike Del Mundo] end up on my desk. Those covers in particular of Vision standing in the doorway of a suburban home with a white picket fence and a mailbox that says ‘The Visions’ on it — that almost ‘Leave it to Beaver’ type imagery — and what it was like when he was in that environment is what led me to say, ‘Let’s look at putting these two things together.’ And [second], doing what is now our first Disney Plus series in a way that it couldn’t just be a movie. It’s not just a long movie on on Disney Plus. We will make shows that are like that, but for our first one, it felt great to do something that could only be done for television.
The series is being developed by Jac Schaeffer (Captain Marvel), who is also serving as the series’ producer, showrunner, and head writer. Director Matt Shakman is helming episodes of the series. It looks like Marvel is going to deliver something awesome with this show!
The first two episodes of the series will drop on Disney+ on January 15th.