Agatha All Along‘s Creator Is Relieved to Be Set Apart From the MCU

As Agatha All Along prepares to driblet its 5th episode—out of 9 total—fans present person a increasing consciousness of however the amusement fits into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And, well, it’s beauteous overmuch been a standalone truthful far, speech from a fewer hints astatine Mephisto-adjacent lore. That’s conscionable good with Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer, who knows a happening oregon 2 astir being intertwined with the MCU, having besides created Agatha‘s predecessor WandaVision.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Schaeffer—who besides co-wrote Black Widow, which had galore tendrils linked into different Marvel properties—sounded a spot relieved to beryllium moving successful a comparatively autarkic pouch of the MCU. “Agatha hasn’t appeared successful immoderate of the features [so we] didn’t person the load of retrofitting immoderate canon,” she said. “On WandaVision, some Paul [Bettany] and Lizzie [Elizabeth Olsen] had truthful overmuch backstory successful themselves and betwixt each other. So their moments of romance successful the films are truthful petite, but they meant truthful overmuch to those 2 performers. So we wanted to underscore those moments and capable them retired more.”

She continued. “We besides had the larger Scarlet Witch load of the Infinity Stone and that benignant of thing. Even with WandaVision, it was little astir however it fits with aboriginal properties. We had immoderate of that, but it was more, ‘How bash we nestle this successful what already exists and some heighten the communicative we’re telling and buttress the stories that person travel before?’ It’s heartbreaking to disavow oregon teardrop down what’s already been established, and [upholding the past stories] was portion of our enactment there. So we didn’t person that enactment successful arsenic large of a mode connected Agatha All Along due to the fact that Agatha is her ain bird.”

However, Schaeffer besides recognizes that being portion of a overmuch bigger representation tin really beryllium adjuvant successful its ain way. “Most writers person an tremendous imagination, and erstwhile thing tin beryllium anything, that tin beryllium daunting,” she said. “So erstwhile you’re like, ‘It tin lone beryllium this thing, but bash it well,’ I find that benignant of freeing. When we were archetypal looking astatine the Witches’ Road and however we were going to plan it, a batch of what’s successful the comics wasn’t worldly that we could oregon wanted to use. But past it felt wide open, truthful I recovered the archetypal brainstorming connected the roadworthy astir excessively bluish sky.”

Fortunately, Agatha All Along‘s squad recovered a mode to bring absorption to that wide bluish sky—including giving each halt on the Witches’ Road truthful acold its ain manner aesthetic—that makes the amusement consciousness aimed astatine some Marvel fans and radical intrigued by Kathryn Hahn’s spellbinding show and character. Unfortunately, however, Schaeffer’s dedication to Agatha means she won’t person a nonstop manus successful the adjacent bid spawned from her archetypal creation: the Bettany-starring Vision Quest.

“It was with a precise dense bosom that I realized that [working connected Vision Quest] logistically wouldn’t enactment for me,” she said. “But I americium truthful looking guardant to that show. I americium conscionable an tremendous cheerleader for everybody involved, particularly Paul.”

A caller occurrence of Agatha All Along arrives contiguous connected Disney+.

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