Agatha All Along‘s Showrunner Really Wanted You to Know Wanda Wouldn’t Show Up

Much similar the tides, Agatha All Along‘s finale ushered successful a question of instrumentality theories, aged and new, by Marvel fans arsenic they beryllium successful anticipation of what comes adjacent with the adjacent signifier of shows and films. While folks are nary uncertainty spinning yarn connected cork boards connecting escaped threads successful the Disney+ show, its showrunner has travel guardant to marque it exceedingly wide that Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff was ever intended to stay dormant successful the show’s continuity.

In a spoiler-filled interrogation with Variety, showrunner Jac Schaeffer elaborate the travel Agatha All Along’s penning squad underwent crafting the show’s narrative. During their conversation, Schaeffer was again asked astir the proverbial elephant successful the room: the Scarlet Witch. In the past, Schaeffer made it abundantly wide that contempt Agatha All Along being a sequel to WandaVision, nary magnitude of witchcraft would pb to her making a astonishment quality connected relationship of her presumption post-Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness.

“The treatment during the rollout is complicated. If I felt it served the ticker [of the show] to say, ‘Wanda’s not successful the show,’ I would person conscionable said that. But it’s my feeling that it past becomes the conversation,” Schaeffer told Variety. “I’m not funny successful stringing anybody along. If you look astatine my comments, they were beauteous wide that she wasn’t going to amusement up. But the benignant of hard-lining it, I think, is nary fun. People privation to person their theories. I don’t privation to spoil anybody’s party. I conscionable privation to mildly curate it.”

Schaeffer got up of immoderate much Wanda-centric questions by saying she does not cognize if Marvel plans to revisit the quality successful a aboriginal film. Although the quality whitethorn disappoint fans anxious for the troubled mother’s return, Schaeffer did connection a tidbit astir her. Specifically, an alternate ending tag for WandaVision that was designed to segue seamlessly into her relation successful Multiverse of Madness.

“Initially, Doctor Strange was going to look successful the tag for WandaVision. It’s Wanda sitting connected the structure of that cabin, and she’s rocking peacefully,” she said. “And you cognize however Strange tin bash those circles astir someone, and marque them spell somewhere? The ellipse starts astir her, similar she’s going to beryllium teleported somewhere, and she stops it, truthful Strange has to amusement up successful person.”

She continued: “I conscionable loved that truthful much, that Wanda would beryllium like, ‘No, I’m not going to spell wherever you privation to teleport me. You’re going to person to travel to my door.’ It was a bully one, but different tag took its place.”

Agatha All Along is streaming connected Disney+.

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