The new Disney Plus television show “WandaVision” is still on the way, and we don’t really know when it’ll drop. But Entertainment Weekly recently ran a cover story about the new show, which dropped details about what to expect.
- And apparently it’s meant to be a sitcom for families.
What’s going on?
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly he came up with the idea for the show — which will be about “Avengers” stars Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living in suburbia — because he was missing sitcoms.
- “I would get ready for the day and watch some old sitcom because I couldn’t take the news anymore,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “Getting ready to go to set over the last few years, I kept thinking of how influential these programs were on our society and on myself, and how certainly I was using it as an escape from reality where things could be tied up in a nice bow in 30 minutes.”
Feige then teamed up with Mary Livanos, Matt Shakman and “Captain Marvel” writer writer Jac Schaeffer to work on the project.
- “It really does feel like we’re all programmed to know and love and understand these suburban family sitcoms,” Livanos told Entertainment Weekly. “So, to mess with expectations has been really fun.”
What we know
Disney Plus released the first official trailer for “WandaVision” during the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards back in September, as I wrote about for the Deseret News.
The series “is a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision — two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives — begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.”
- No release date has been announced. Late 2020 is believed to be the release time.