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Author: Charles Murphy

  • One of Marvel Studios’ Highest-Rated Series Reportedly Facing a Major Season 2 Slowdown

    One of Marvel Studios’ Highest-Rated Series Reportedly Facing a Major Season 2 Slowdown

    After a rough 2023, Marvel Studios turned to the X-Men to help reclaim its position at pop culture’s top dog in 2024. Deadpool & Wolverine was always expected to do big business at the box office (and it did just that, currently sitting as the 5th highest-grossing MCU project of all time) but it was another X-Men project that provided a spark of renewed hope when the studio needed it most.

    While Deadpool & Wolverine landed as expected, Marvel Studios’ animated streaming series, X-Men ’97, delivered more than anyone could have hoped, immediately capturing its audience and holding onto it over its 10-episode run. The animated revival, dripping with nostalgia, showed fans just what stories about the band of mutant heroes can be and left fans on the edge with its season-finale cliffhanger. In the wake of the finale, the studio shared encouraging news that Season 2 wouldn’t be too far off but now, a new report brings some potential bad tidings on that front.

    According to Nexus Point News, Season 2 of X-Men ’97 is unlikely to hit Disney Plus before 2026, citing changes to the story following the firing of showrunner Beau DeMayo earlier this year.
    (L-R): Beast (voiced by George Buza), Roberto Da Costa (voiced by Gui Agustini), Jubilee (voiced by Holly Chou), Cyclops (voiced by Ray Chase), Jean Grey (voiced by Jennifer Hale), Morph (voiced by JP Karliak), and Wolverine (voiced by Cal Dodd) in Marvel Animation’s X-MEN ’97. Photo courtesy of Marvel Animation. © 2024 MARVEL.

    Before his dismissal, DeMayo had completed work on the scripts for the sophomore season and had outlined a 5-season plan for the series which he teased involved the villain Onslaught and an adaptation of the revered Age of Apocalypse Marvel Comics crossover event. Ms. Marvel and What If…? scribe Matthew Chauncey landed the job as the new head writer of the series and while his duties were expected to begin with Season 3, NPN reports he is now rewriting DeMayo’s drafts for Season 2.

    Earlier this year, it was reported that Season 2 of X-Men ’97 was in post-production and eyeing a 2025 debut on D+. However, in May, Marvel TV and Animation head honcho Brad Winderbaum cautioned fans to exercise patience, saying the series was “still in animatic phase“, adding that “animation takes so long to make.” Should this new report hold true, it looks like fans will have to exhibit a bit more patience than they’d probably care to do.

    Source: Nexus Point News

  • Controversial Marvel Multiverse Saga Villain Rumored for a Major Role in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Controversial Marvel Multiverse Saga Villain Rumored for a Major Role in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    So far, Marvel Studios’ Multiverse Saga has not quite lived up to the expectations as a follow-up to the Infinity Saga. While the studio’s first three phases had bumps in the road, the combination of a pandemic, the tragic loss of one of the studio’s biggest stars, work stoppages in Hollywood and some really bad decisions have led to the perception that Marvel Studios has lost its way. Keenly aware of that perception, Disney dialed up an intervention and began to make key changes behind the scenes. So far, it would be hard to argue with the results as a string of good projects has begun to erase the (short) memory of the public and reestablish the MCU as a pop culture giant; however, with another two-plus years of projects planned to finish up the Multiverse Saga, there’s still plenty of work to do.

    Part of that work is continuing to separate the future from the bad decisions of the past…which has led them to reach further into the past. Following the studio’s decision to part ways with Jonathan Majors, who was contracted to play multiple versions of Kang and serve as the big bad of the Multiverse Saga, Kevin Feige turned to Infinity Saga legends Anthony and Joe Russo and Robert Downey Jr. to save the day by rebuilding Avengers: The Kang Dynasty as Avengers: Doomsday. Pivoting to a new villain at the core of the Multiverse Saga opened up the playbook a bit for the studio, allowing for characters who perhaps weren’t slated for major roles to find one (and it also pushed some characters right out of the stories planned for the next few years. And for one character in particular, that reportedly may mean a redemption arc that will thrill a large segment of MCU fandom.

    According to insider My Time to Shine Hello, the Russos and writer Stephen McFeely have carved out a large role for Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff in Avengers: Doomsday.

    Following the events of WandaVision, which saw the character hold the entire town of Westview hostage within her grief-induced hex, Wanda’s study of the Darkhold corrupted her. By the time she appeared again in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Wanda had become the Scarlet Witch and acted as the film’s main antagonist. Though based on comic book lore, the decision by writer Michael Waldron to utilize the character as a villain was controversial. Already a popular character, Wanda’s fanbase grew significantly during WandaVision‘s weekly run on Disney Plus. Following the film’s release, Waldron addressed the fanbase’s issues with Wanda’s heel turn, saying “I guess I would say to the WandaVision fans, like, I get it. Watching a character you love do bad things sucks. That elicits a strong feeling, which is what we’re trying to do in the movies. We never would have done it if it didn’t feel like the next step in her character journey.“

    To me, my interpretation of the story of WandaVision was, that Wanda is confronting her grief in that show, but I don’t think she’s necessarily conquering it. It’s a show about her living in denial to some extent and she’s conquering her denial, but I don’t think that she’s properly reckoning with her anger over what she’s endured, and that anger is what she carries with her as she walks away with the knowledge that she is the Scarlet Witch and with the Darkhold, this evil book. And I think it’s that anger that the Darkhold preys upon and pushes her on what is a, to me and I think to Wanda, a very justifiable, noble journey. She just wants her kids.

    -Michael Waldron on Wanda Maximoff’s villainous role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    The rumor of Wanda’s potential role in Avengers: Doomsday is the latest in a wave of recent rumblings about the character’s future. Following a report that a Scarlet Witch solo project may be moving ahead at the studio, WandaVision and Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer, who is rumored to be co-writing the script for the film, fueled the fanbase’s fire a bit by stating she couldn’t talk about the project “right now.”

    Though there’s no mention of what Wanda’s role in Avengers: Doomsday might entail, the character does have an interesting comic book history with that film’s title character, Victor Von Doom, that current and future events in the MCU’s ongoing shared narrative could easily be setting up. With things at Marvel Studios more unsettled than ever and with the powers that be apparently deciding to accelerate the ending of the Multiverse Saga, it’s best not to become too attached to any one particular idea at this time; however, a redemption arc for the Scarlet Witch is one idea that continues to look fairly promising.

  • Matthias Schoenaerts Lands Villainous Role in ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow ‘

    Matthias Schoenaerts Lands Villainous Role in ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow ‘

    With James Gunn‘s Superman in post production and reportedly shaping up to be a very solid start for DC Studios, Gunn and DC Studios’ co-chair Peter Safran have some time to devote to getting the next round of projects ready to roll. The studio’s HBO streaming series, Lanterns,which is scheduled for a January shoot in Atlanta, has been making headlines lately and recently found its Hal Jordan in Kyle Chandler. Now, the studio’s next theatrical project has some casting news of its own.

    According to THR, Matthias Schoenaerts has signed on to be the main antagonist in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

    Based on Tom King’s DC Comics series of the same name, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is set to film in the UK in January ahead of a June 27, 2026 release. Milly Alcock landed the lead role of Kara Zor-El in January 2024, beating out Emilia Jones and Meg Donnelly to play the cousin of Kal-El. Alcock’s Supergirl is expected to first appear in 2025’s Superman.

    According to the trade report, Schoenaerts will play a villain known as Krem of the Yellow Hills. While that’s not a name that sounds as scary as Darkseid or Doomsday, Krem is a fairly ruthless baddie and, he did cross the line by inflicting damage on Kara’s dog, Krypto, in the comics, leading to Kara’s Shooter moment.

    Source: THR

  • ‘Thunderbolts*’ Teaser Reveals Mysterious New MCU Organization

    ‘Thunderbolts*’ Teaser Reveals Mysterious New MCU Organization

    Much has been made about the changes that have taken place behind the scenes at Marvel Studios since Bob Iger returned to Disney. The number of series and films has been reduced, productions have been paused, rewritten and reshot and the fates of others seemingly lie in the balance as the Multiverse Saga is being reworked on the fly. Slightly less attention has been paid, however, to the not-so-subtle shift in the typically tight-lipped studio’s marketing approach.

    Projects such as Agatha All Along and The Fantastic Four: First Steps seemed to serve as guinea pigs for fun new strategies to engage the public far sooner and more directly than what the studio had done in the past. Additionally (and perhaps driven by leaks) teaser trailers for upcoming films, such as 2025’s Captain America: Brave New World, started making their way online earlier than in the past.

    Thunderbolts*, another 2025 project has also utilized some non-traditional strategies to gather some momentum. Earlier this year, star Florence Pugh released a staged, behind-the-scenes video from the film’s set which revealed a slight change to the film’s title with an asterisk being added. That asterisk has driven dialogue online as fans speculate and theorize about just what its inclusion might mean and the studio has certainly embraced if not encouraged the discourse. In addition to that bit of fun, the studio also sneakily dropped an extended teaser for the film on September 23rd, more than seven months before it hits theaters. And while the fine folks at Marvel Studios did their best to keep their secrets, they did leave one clue in the background that reveals the identity of a mysterious new organization that will be introduced to the MCU in the film.

    At the 1:33 mark of the trailer, after Pugh’s Yelena Belova recovers from the attempt by Wyatt Russell’s John Walker to kill her, a symbol can be glimpsed on a crate over Belova’s left shoulder.

    Though the symbol is at an odd angle, upon a little zoom, zoom, zoom and a boom-boom, it can be recognized as a fancy combination of the letters O, X and E. And while it may not be as easily recognizable to fans as other members of Marvel’s alphabet soup club such as S.H.I.E.L.D. or S.W.O.R.D., O.X.E. is an established organization from the pages of Marvel Comics and it has ties to one of the main characters in Thunderbolts*.

    Iterations of O.X.E. exist in both Marvel Comics’ 616 and Ultimate universes and while the true nature of either entity isn’t actually too clear, they were both founded by… Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. After first appearing in The Falcon and The Winter Solider, the MCU’s version of Val–played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has been busy recruiting her own team of operatives such as Walker and Belova. And if it wasn’t already clear enough after watching the teaser, Val is using her O.X.E. facility as a holding tank for Lewis Pullman‘s “Bob” and has sent all her cronies there to die, whether by Bob’s hands–or eyes–or by each other’s, as she seeks a new position within the U.S. Goverment. It’s also very likely that the masked gunmen who are given the unenviable task of shooting up Bob are Val’s O.X.E. goons.

    Of course, the teaser has plenty of other fun reveals such as Val’s now comic-accurate hair, improved new looks for Ghost and Taskmaster, the Sentry belt logo and a renovated Stark/Avengers Tower. From the looks of it, Black Widow 2 Thunderbolts* may have greatly benefitted from the delays it faced as it the script was rewritten and polished up by several writers over the past couple of years. Moving forward, it will be interesting to see what role, if any, Val and O.X.E. play in the MCU or if it was just an easy organization to write in as a one-off.

    Thunderbolts* is set to arrive in theaters on May 2, 2025.

  • DC Studios ‘Lanterns’ Finds Its Hal Jordan

    DC Studios ‘Lanterns’ Finds Its Hal Jordan

    First announced by DC Studios’ co-chairs James Gunn and Peter Safran in January 2022, the streaming series Lanterns is poised to play a major role in the DCU’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. Described by Safran as a “terrestrial-based investigation story” in the vein of HBO’s True Detective, the series will be focused on Green Lantern Corps members Hal Jordan and John Stewart who “find this ancient horror on Earth, and these guys are basically supercops on “Precinct Earth” which will play “a really big role leading us into the main story” of the studio’s initial shared narrative.

    Led by what Gunn described as “a crack team of writers” that consists of Tom King, Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof, the series was ordered straight to series by HBO earlier this year. Following that news, the studio began searching for big names on both sides of the camera, eyeing Primetime Emmy Award-winning director Stephen Williams to direct the pilot and targeting star Josh Brolin to portray an older, grizzled version of Hal Jordan. With Brolin passing on the role, the studio continued its search for a big star but reportedly had trouble landing an A-lister for the role. With an eye on a January start of production, there was no true rush to find an actor to fill the role; however, according to a trade report, the studio has found its Hal Jordan.

    THR’s Borys Kit and Rick Porter reported that Primetime Emmy award winner Kyle Chandler will be suiting up as the DCU’s Hal Jordan.

    John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman.

    -James Gunn and Peter Safran on HBO’s Lanterns

    Chandler won his Emmy in 2011 for his portrayal of Texas football coach Eric Taylor in the NBC series, Friday Night Lights. Over the past decade, Chandler has had plenty of other memorable roles, starring as FBI Agent Denham in The Wolf of Wall Street and in both Godzilla: King of Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong. With Chandler on board, the studio will continue its search for an actor to portray John Stewart, though Elvis star Kelvin Harrision Jr. was recently rumored to be a top choice.

    Source: THR

  • Details on Tom Holland’s MCU Future Reveal Spectacular Plans for Spider-Man

    Details on Tom Holland’s MCU Future Reveal Spectacular Plans for Spider-Man

    Nearly three years have passed since Tom Holland‘s last MCU appearance. Spider-Man: No Way Home was a massive success for both Marvel Studios and Sony and Holland’s portrayal of Peter Parker/Spider-Man so beloved that Marvel Studios’ head honcho, Kevin Feige, preempted the film’s premiere with news that both studios were committed to continuing to collaborating on more MCU-set Spidey stories.

    Three years later, there has yet to be any official word on when to expect Spider-Man 4 and more rumors about the film’s plot than anyone cares to count. After recent reports indicated that the film, which was originally rumored to feature Spidey and Daredevil teaming up in what was being billed as a street-level civil war was undergoing a major overhaul, it was revealed that Marvel Studios had struck a deal with Destin Daniel Cretton to direct. With Spidey stalwarts Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers returning to script the film, momentum on Spider-Man 4 seemed to b swinging in the right direction. Now, further good news has begun making the rounds.

    The simple answer is that I’ll always want to do Spider-Man films. I owe my life and career to Spider-Man. So the simple answer is yes. I’ll always want to do more.

    -Tom Holland on his future as Spider-Man, April 2024
    According to Marvel insider Daniel RPK, production on Spider-Man 4 is expected to get underway in early 2025. RPK also reported that Holland’s Spidey will  play a major role in Avengers: Doomsday. With that project also scheduled to film in early 2025, it looks as though Holland will be pulling double duty, filming both simultaneously. Sources have informed the insider that Spidey’s role in the studio’s next two Avengers films, 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, will be larger than it was in either of the previous two installments in the franchise,  Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

    Though it was never officially confirmed, Holland was rumored to have reached a new deal with Sony and Marvel Studios in 2022. Rumors of the terms of the deal included a new MCU-set Spider-Man trilogy as well as lead roles in unspecified Marvel Studios’ productions, such as Avengers films. In that regard, the new report about Holland’s immediate future as the character is consistent with the rumored deal. And with Sony certainly itching to get another entry in the franchise back in theaters, the timeline for Spidey 4 makes sense even if it keeps the star very busy for the first half of 2025.

  • Marvel TV Boss Finally Addresses Long-Standing ‘Ghost Rider’ Rumors

    Marvel TV Boss Finally Addresses Long-Standing ‘Ghost Rider’ Rumors

    While the events of Agatha All Along spin out of Marvel Studios’ first streaming series, WandaVision, the new Marvel Television also plays as a bit of a spiritual successor to Werewolf By Night. Darker and spookier than WandaVision, Agatha All Along examines witchcraft through a far more supernatural lens than its predecessor, embracing old-school horror in a way reminiscent of Michael Giacchino‘s 2022 Special Presentation. Curses, demons, ghosts, haunted houses and more await Agatha’s coven of chaos, fleshing out the MCU’s supernatural corner in a way no project other than Werewolf By Night has done.

    While choosing Agatha All Along as the vehicle to explore the supernatural world further, that exploration is something that Marvel Studios has been rumored to have an interest in for years. In addition to the studio’s struggling Blade feature film, rumors have suggested that development on projects such as Midnight Sons and Ghost Rider has been underway at different points in time over the past several years.

    In the case of Ghost Rider, rumors have ranged from the studio having lined up The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus to portray Johnny Blaze to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actor Gabriel Luna jumping to the MCU to reprise the role of Robbie Reyes to Nicholas Cage making a cameo appearance as the character in Deadpool & Wolverine. To date, of course, there’s been nary a Ghost Rider to be found but that may change soon if Marvel’s head of streaming, television and animation, Brad Winderbaum, gets his way.

    In an interview with Collider, Winderbaum revealed that if he had the option to green light one Marvel Television streaming series, it would indeed be Ghost Rider; however, there’s a catch…

    “I would wanna do the Danny Ketch era of Ghost Rider,” revealed Winderbaum. “I think there are a lot of people who would be here for some Ghost Rider.“

    On Winderbaum’s last point, there can be no doubt. While any version of Ghost Rider may never be one of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters, the character’s aesthetic is inarguably one of their most iconic. And while Blaze was the comic’s OG Ghost Rider, he’s hardly the only character to house the Spirit of Vengeance. And while Winderbaum’s choice to focus on Ketch may catch some fans by surprise, it would certainly not preclude Blaze from making his MCU debut. Indeed, making Ketch the lead of a Ghost Rider series almost certainly means that Blaze, who is Ketch’s brother, plays some role.

    Of course with Winderbaum continuing to trot out the company line that Marvel Television is developing more projects than it intended to produce, don’t start your Hell Cycle engines just yet on that Ketch-focused Ghost Rider series ever being more than an idea than a reality.

    Source: Collider

  • Marvel Studios Has Reportedly Assembeled Its New Avengers

    Marvel Studios Has Reportedly Assembeled Its New Avengers

    Throughout the Infinity Saga, Marvel Studios churned out Avengers films every three years to mark the transition from one Phase to another…and that’s if you don’t count Captain America: Civil War–which featured more Avengers than either of the first two Avengers films–as an Avengers film! Over seven years from 2012 to 2019, fans were treated to The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (and Captain America: Civil War!), three of which are among the top 15 rated MCU films according to Rotten Tomatoes (four is you count Captain America: Civil War!) and all of which are top ten box office earners for Marvel Studios (except Captain America: Civil War, probably because they didn’t call it Avengers: Civil War). To recap, Avengers movies are well-made and make big money.

    Given the successful track record of Avengers films, it would seemingly stand to reason that as the studio moved into an all-new, all-different era of storytelling in the Multiverse Saga, it would stick to the pattern; however, three plus years and one Phase transition into the new saga, fans still haven’t seen the Avengers assemble on screen, not even in a quasi-Avengers film like, say…Captain America: Civil War. But according to a new report, that’s all about to change in 2025.

    According to a pair of online personalities regarded as insiders, Marvel Studios will roll out its team of New Avengers next summer in director Jake Schreier‘s Thunderbolts*.

    First reported by GWW to be in development in 2021, Thunderbolts* was confirmed by a trade report in June 2022 before being announced by Kevin Feige at SDCC ’22 as the final installment in Phase 5 of the MCU. During 2022’s D23 event in Anaheim, Feige revealed the film’s ensemble cast which features Julia Louis-Dreyfus returning as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine and with Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, and Hannah John-Kamen also reprising their characters from previous projects. So even though they passed on tradition at the end of Phase 4, could Thunderbolts* actually be a quasi-Avengers film?

    The gist of the new report is that by film’s end, the collection of offbeat antiheroes who Val covertly collected to run top secret missions will be hailed as Avengers after accidentally being revealed to the public while saving the day. The report suggests that the reveal is tied to the asterisk that was added to the film’s original title, Thunderbolts, earlier this year. Should this be the case, it’s unlikely that all the characters involved in the film would end up as the MCU’s New Avengers. It’s rather more likely that John Walker, Yelena Belova, Ghost and Taskmaster form the core of the team, giving the group analogs for some of the original team of Avengers. Just how that will be received by the members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes who are still shown to be in contact with one another during one of the stingers in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings remains to be seen.

    Marvel Studios Thunderbolts* is set to hit theaters on May 2, 2025.

  • Review: ‘The Penguin’, Episode 1 -“After Hours”

    Review: ‘The Penguin’, Episode 1 -“After Hours”

    When Matt Reeves‘ The Batman hit theaters in 2022, it was clear that the Gotham which Robert Pattinson‘s Batman sought to protect had a long, dark and sordid past. Corruption ran so deep in Gotham that it might rightly be believed to be a cornerstone of the great city. So strong was the foothold of organized crime in Gotham that the crime families and their goons were entitled and emboldened to carry out their crimes while still considering themselves good men.

    Despite being as warped as the foot that caused his Penguin pimp limp, Falcone family capo Oz Cobb believed himself to be one of those good men. Colin Farrell’s portrayal of Oz in The Batman demanded a follow-up performance which has now hit Max in the form of the limited streaming series, The Penguin. And the series pulls no punches about its lead character nor does it provide any quarter for a man who finds himself in a mess of his own making.

    If The Penguin weren’t known to be a spinoff set in Reeves‘ Batman Epic Crime Saga, it would be as unrecognizable as a comic book-based property as its star is in the lead role. The Penguin shares far more in common with any number of HBO’s prestige crime dramas and Episode 1, “After Hours”, embraces that legacy. It goes full gangster right away and it looks as though the series will benefit from its forthright approach as an exploration of the world of organized crime and the types of people who inhabit it.

    Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
    -Salvador Dali

    Central to Episode 1 and presumably the series are Farrell‘s Cobb and Cristin Milioti‘s Sofia Falcone. Oz wastes no time in unintentionally making an enemy out of Sofia and much of the first episode is spent with Oz apparently spinning his wheels. However, the true brilliance of the episode comes in its closing moments. In his own words, Cobb knows he inhabits a world of big men who need to believe he’s small…and so he allows them their fantasies, using his rough appearance and demeanor to serve as a facade for an ingenious criminal mind. And by episode’s end, Cobb has engineered the rise of the Maroni family he once took down and set himself up as all nut untouchable.

    Thematically, ambition is at the episode’s core and from Cobb’s words to his new partner in crime, Vic, to the 9 to 5 needle drop, there’s no chance it can be forgotten. Cobb’s ambition is second to none and now, with his brilliant mind free to cook, his time has come. Every bit as ambitious as its title character, The Penguin is as intelligent, violent and grounded in the human condition as the great HBO dramas it aspires to be.

  • Marvel Studios Finally Addresses the Fate of the Scarlet Witch

    Marvel Studios Finally Addresses the Fate of the Scarlet Witch

    It truly must be the season of the witch! After spending a little more time brewing in the cauldron, the WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along, finally made its anticipated debut on Disney Plus with a release schedule that will see it wrap up on October 30th, also known in some parts of the United States as Devil’s Night (Mephisto!). While the Kathryn Hahn-led series starts off by wading in the familiar waters of its predecessor, it quickly becomes something different..and scarier, sharing more in common with Marvel’s Werewolf By Night than WandaVision. Though she’s not expected to appear in the series, Elizabeth Olsen‘s Scarlet Witch still factors heavily into the plot of Agatha All Along, with her death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness allowing Agatha to begin to break free from the spell placed on her by Wanda in the WandaVision finale. With Wanda seemingly having met her fate and her spell broken, now is as good of a time as any for the studio to move on from the character; however, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.

    Despite her apparent death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, even the typically tight-lipped Kevin Feige teased that more adventures were in store for the character but as the years have gone by, rumblings of an Olsen-led project begin to quiet down. Recent reports have revived the hope that a Scarlet Witch solo film is back on Marvel Studios’ front burner with WandaVision and Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer reportedly working on a script with the help of Megan McDonnell, who worked on both those projects and wrote the screenplay for The Marvels. When asked recently about those reports, Schaeffer not only didn’t deny them, but she also struggled to conceal her excitement. Now we may understand why.

    While speaking with The Wrap during a press event for Agatha All Along, Schaeffer may have tipped her hand a bit about the future of Wanda Maximoff in the MCU.
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 16: Jac Schaeffer attends the launch event for Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on September 16, 2024. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Marvel)

    When asked by The Wrap if it’s possible that the collapse of Mount Wundagore killed the Scarlet Witch but not Wanda, Schaeffer not only once again did not say no, she came awfully close to confirming the theory. “I am keeping such a good poker face,” said Schaeffer, adding “What I will say is like, I really like how your mind works. That’s my response to that theory.“

    Should that theory truly hold some water, it would be congruent with Feige’s 2022 tease about the possibility of more in store for Wanda. “There really is so much more to explore. We still haven’t touched on many of her core storylines from the comics,” said Feige. “I don’t know that we saw her under rubble? I saw a tower coming down, and a little red flash. I don’t know what that means.“

    While it’s harder than ever to divine the future of Marvel Studios, it truly is beginning to look like there’s plenty of room for another chapter in the story of Wanda Maximoff.

    Source: The Wrap