After Scarlet Witch’s [Spoiler], What is the next? Jac Schaeffer provides clues – Deadline

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers for episode 3 “Now in Color” by Disney + WandaVision

After all the Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched satirical hijinks in WandaVision, the series began to function in a way that made fans nervous: Wanda Maximoff gave birth to her twin sons, Thomas and William (Billy), at the end of episode 3.

And in the Marvel tradition, these guys will become the Young Avengers: Wiccan and Speed. Wiccan will have his mother’s powers of witchcraft, and Speed, the fast-changing talents of his late uncle, Mercury.

From there, the fanboy universe is predicting a series of details: that great evil villain Mephisto is lurking around the corner of WandaVision Neighborhood; Easter eggs scattered in abundance over the first three episodes of the series indicate this (ie the upside down ‘666’ in the toaster commercial, Agnes ‘invisible husband’ (Kathryn Hahn) being called ‘Ralph’ – a name associated with the protagonist of Lord of the Flies, The list goes on). Tommy and Billy are reabsorbed in Mephisto and, finally, cease to exist. Let’s also not forget that Wanda is Magneto’s daughter (Michael Fassbender or Ian McKellen are reprising their role?).

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We talk to WandaVision EP, chief scribe and creator Jac Schaeffer today who claimed the 5th to see if most of these details from the Marvel canon will be represented in the series; in particular the notion that Agnes’ husband Ralph is Mephisto.

“I can’t answer that,” she laughed, explaining to us when asked that “there isn’t a member of the Easter Eggs team” in the series that plants tips throughout the show.

The bread crumbs distributed in each episode, in fact, come from the program’s department heads.

“There are so many people who have worked on Marvel’s productions, it’s a lot of talented people coming together and contributing their ideas that they know,” explains Schaeffer, who has a history with credit for the next MCU resource Black Widow.

There are other issues imminent in WandaVision, ie as SWORD., the organization that is monitoring Vision and Wanda came to be (in the comics, they are the counter-terrorism intelligence group that is the space-based counterpart SHIELD) and the involvement of Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) with the org. The idea is that she Thor character has been monitoring the duo, and she will make her debut WandaVision in the near future. How did Darcy go from smart scientist to Jane Foster to mutant caregiver?

Schaeffer says: “Like everything in the MCU, there is the version that exists in the comics and the version that reaches the screen”.

Wanda is a very powerful person and everyone agrees that she created this virtual world. But what about all your sitcom obsession?

“The sitcoms are my obsessions, from Kevin Feige and Matt Shakman,” says Schaeffer, “Sitcoms are a place of comfort and security for us as a community and culture. Superhero movies exist in these huge betting environments; more than life or death, it is the fate of the galaxy. In a sitcom, everything will be fine, no matter what. I think we were fascinated between the intersection of these two things. “

Although we know from the promotions that a Family ties the tribute is available at WandaVision, when the sitcom dries well, the program will offer alternate universes of popular hour-long TV shows, that is, Dallas, Love American Style, The Love Boat, BJ and the Bear, CHIPS and The Sopranos? How long the TV parody concept will last WandaVision?

Schaeffer promises: “The program will continue to push the boundaries of television and surprise and subvert expectations.”