Marvel’s latest live-action show, “Agatha All Along,” is right around the corner and will premiere September 18 on Disney+. The series is, of course, a spin-off of Marvel’s “WandaVision” and was also created by the same showrunner, Jac Schaeffer.
Of course, the show initially had four different titles: “The Darkhold Diaries,” “Coven Of Chaos,” and more. However, as we all suspected, Marvel was just trolling fans and messing with them all along, pardon the pun, and the show’s current title was always the name of the show from the very beginning.
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“Well, it was always ‘Agatha All Along.’ We were like, ‘It’s going to be Agatha All Along.’ And then someone was like, ‘You know what? We should just come up with a bunch of different titles to mess with the audience.’” Brad Winderbaum, Head of Streaming, Television and Animation at Marvel Studios, recently told ComicBook.com in a Phase Zero interview (see below).
“It started with like, ‘We’ll do it as a fake chairback,;’ he continued. “And they were like, ‘Oh, we’ll actually do it as a fake announcement.’ And it just went back and forth until it just got more and more ludicrous.”
In the same interview, Winderbaum said the show will feature some “prologue” connections to “Doctor Strange & The Multiverse Of Madness,” but it will mostly be a stand-alone series.
Kathryn Hahn will reprise her Emmy-winning role as the titular witch Agatha Harkness and is joined by franchise newbies Maria Dizzia, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, Joe Locke, and Aubrey Plaza. Debra Jo Rupp and Emma Caulfield, who were in “WandaVision,” are also returning.
In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, Schaffer admitted that threads from “WandaVision” will carry over into “Agatha.’
“Agatha is not a character who’s going to stand in anyone’s shadow. This is emphatically an Agatha Harkness show,” she explained. “However, we are in the ‘WandaVision’ corner of the universe, so Wanda’s legacy has threads in this narrative.”
Asked if Wanda would return to the ‘Agatha’ series, Winderbaum played coy when speaking to CinemaBlend but again suggested lots of fun connections to “WandaVision” that fans will enjoy.
“I think that, without saying too much, I think that Agatha is a crucial chapter in the Wanda mythology,” Winderbaum told the site. “Okay. It’s an Agatha show. But if you’re a fan of Wanda, you’re going to enjoy this step down the road.”
Additionally, in the EW interview, Schaeffer admitted she pursued “a lot of different ideas” for the post-WandaVision series. One of them was the VisionQuest series, which will go into production soon. However, she declined to reveal the other concepts she ideated because of how Marvel works and how “some of the things that I was talking about have other lives elsewhere.”
Speaking of that “Vision Quest” series, Schaeffer, who originally came up with the concept, said she would not be working on the show but is “entirely rooting for it.”
However, Mary Livanos, an exec producer on “Agatha All Along,” who also worked on “WandaVision,” will also work on “Vision Quest.” “VisionQuest is in development. “I’ll be lucky and thrilled to be back on that, but it’s the very early days, but it will pick up after the events of WandaVision,” she explained.
Lastly, Marvel has only made two Special Presentations, “Werewolf by Night” and “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.” Still, Winderbaum confirmed that more will be coming in the future. Check out the video below to see many of these little bits.
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