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Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige notes how the studio rejected writers who didn’t understand the sitcom theme of Disney+’s WandaVision.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige discussed the difficulty in finding writers that would be willing to go along with WandaVision’s core sitcom theme.
In conversation with the Producers Guild of America, Feige mentioned how he watched sitcoms to relax during Marvel Studios’ production of movies like Avengers: Infinity War, and how the “comforting lies” of sitcoms were something he wanted to translate to WandaVision. “So how do you utilize that to tell this story of Wanda and Vision and Wanda in particular?” Feige asked. “The truth is we met with a lot of people who just simply didn’t get it. So having an idea is one thing. Finding people who share the passion for that idea and can actually turn it into something is something entirely different.”
Feige stated that the biggest challenge for him on WandaVision was finding collaborators who were excited by the challenge of the show. “The truth is, Jac [Schaeffer] was working on Black Widow at the time,” Feige continued. “We were having other meetings, and there came a point, I don’t remember exactly how many meetings it was — maybe three or four meetings with other writers — and a number of them were saying, ‘You know, we really love those two characters. But the sitcom. Do you need the sitcom element? What if you lost the sitcom element? Maybe that might focus it in.'”
He suggested that, given the sitcom element of WandaVision was pivotal to the show, they were “clearly” not finding the right people given their desire to forgo the show’s core theme. “So the fact that, meanwhile, in another room at Marvel Studios, Jac [Schaeffer] was hearing about it and being excited by the high fail potential of it — which is often how the best ideas come about — was great,” Feige explained.
The utilization of sitcoms in WandaVision acted not only as a thematic way to tell the story, but also as a personal link to Wanda Maximoff’s past and a curated portrayal of her ideal life. The theme played heavily into the show, evident in WandaVision’s filming, as well as WandaVision’s sitcom homages, which helped to advance the series’ storyline and Wanda’s own personal feelings.
Written by Jac Schaeffer and directed by Matt Shakman, WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany as Vision, Randall Park as Agent Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Kathryn Hahn as Agnes. The series is available to stream on Disney+.
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