WandaVision will kick off the following chapter of the MCU on Friday, January 15, not solely as the primary Marvel Studios collection for Disney+, however because the unintended first mission to go public from Kevin Feige and his staff since Spider-Man: Removed from Residence wrapped up the Infinity Saga in the summertime of 2019. All eyes are on the collection not simply because it comes after a full 12 months of no Marvel Studios content material, however as a result of it can set the tone of Part Four of the MCU and what’s to return from the behemoth studio.
Earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered film theaters and prompted world manufacturing shutdowns, Scarlett Johansson‘s Black Widow film was set to kick off the post-Thanos (Josh Brolin) Marvel Cinematic Universe final spring, adopted by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier launching Marvel’s Disney+ collection library. WandaVision had been set to premiere within the winter, however the pandemic modified every thing. WandaVision will now cleared the path in January, with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier following in March. Black Widow, if the nonetheless raging pandemic permits, will make its theatrical run in Might across the similar time that Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki restricted collection will premiere on Disney+. Regardless of the reshuffling, Feige admits that not a lot needed to change to place WandaVision within the lead, and in the end he thinks it will likely be for the most effective.
“Simply the character of the start of Part Four and these movies and in Disney+ collection we had, all of them work with the slight reshuffles that we have all been compelled to cope with,” Feige informed TV Information throughout a press junket to advertise WandaVision. “However it’s good that regardless that it wasn’t initially designed that method, WandaVision being the kickoff not only for Part 4, however particularly for Marvel Studios and the MCU on Disney+, is ideal as a result of it is an homage to tv.”
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Whereas Feige is assured that WandaVision, which sees Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Imaginative and prescient (Paul Bettany) try to create an idyllic suburban life as every episode pays tribute to a special decade of TV sitcoms, will kick off Part Four in a daring new method for Marvel, he is in a lot much less of a rush to outline what is going to finish this new chapter or what Marvel is defining as the following “saga” for the studio.
“It is all only a method of maintaining monitor of the tales. We’re constructing as we make them, after which maintaining monitor of the tales for the viewers after we have launched them. We did not declare these 23 films within the Infinity Saga till they had been all completed, till they had been carried out. A few of them related greater than others, and a few of them had been the person trilogies wrapped up into the Avengers films, interconnected with Civil Battle and different movies,” Feige defined. “In order that, just like the comics, is the enjoyable of our storytelling. The phases and the sagas are one thing that we use to maintain a much bigger image in thoughts as we create all of our particular person singular collection or films. That has labored effectively for us so we’re persevering with to consider it in that trend. Declaring what it’s, or what the overarching theme is, or what the title of the saga is won’t come till a lot later.”
Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision
What we do know is that the MCU has 9 introduced titles within the pipeline for 2021 alone, with six of these being Disney+ episodic adventures that can both present a deeper examination of beloved established MCU characters like Wanda, Imaginative and prescient, and Loki, or introduce new characters like Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), aka Ms. Marvel, who will make her debut in her personal Disney+ collection in Fall 2021 after which seem on the movie aspect in Captain Marvel 2 alongside Brie Larson‘s eponymous hero.
The Disney+ slate will work in tandem with the movie universe in a method the collection created by Jeph Loeb underneath the Marvel TV umbrella — which is basically now defunct as Feige has introduced Marvel’s tv efforts underneath the movie studio banner — was by no means capable of do. WandaVision particularly will lead straight into Physician Unusual and the Multiverse of Insanity, which is slated for an early 2022 theatrical launch. In the meanwhile, Feige and the artistic groups behind the upcoming Disney+ exhibits are having enjoyable taking part in of their new frontier.
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“Having simply gone feature-to-feature, doing it episode-to-episode is enjoyable and introduced in a complete renewed sense of artistic enthusiasm, post-the Infinity Saga after we began this three years in the past, which actually invigorated me personally. I feel all of us at Marvel Studios,” Feige shared. “Taking these characters that that up so far, have solely been in films, in lots of, many films like Wanda and Imaginative and prescient, like Loki, like Falcon and Winter Soldier, and having the ability to spend extra time with these nice characters which have been various levels of supporting characters within the movies — now they’re being the premiere focus characters — is what was probably the most enjoyable, and what I used to be most enthusiastic about.”
Even when episodic tv is new for Feige and the film studio, they are not afraid to make daring strokes and mess around with the format. WandaVision is already being described as an thrilling departure from earlier Marvel content material in critics’ first reactions and the Marvel boss is just seeking to develop from there. Within the meantime, he is proud to have WandaVision take step one in Marvel’s new course.
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“Taking part in with the stylistic codecs of the medium was all the time thrilling to us,” he mentioned. “We have carried out it to a sure extent in varied methods in films, however by no means so straight or unabashedly persistently than in these first three episodes of WandaVision.”
WandaVision premieres with its first two episodes on Friday, January 15 on Disney+.