WandaVision, the first-ever Marvel Cinematic Studios’s television series, is a fresh take on live-action adaptation of a Marvel comic book. It’s a departure from anything the MCU has done before. The creative team at Marvel Studios chose to do a sticom-style series with each episode mimicking a specific era in television. From I Love Lucy to 90s sitcoms. According to star Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision is considered a blank slate for the Marvel Studios team and Kevin Feige, the studios President and Chief Creative Officer.
In an interview with ELLE, Elizabeth Olsen said, “The show is like a blank slate for them.”
“Wanda and Vision’s journey to this point is a story of pure, innocent love and deep connection with another person,” she continued. “It was also very traumatizing. Tragedy has always been their story. In our show, we kind of wipe that clean and start fresh.”
So far, the story at this point is just about a couple trying to fit in the environment they’re in.
“They are just trying to fit in,” the Olsen added. “They’re trying to not be found out by their neighbors that they’re super-powered beings. The reason it’s a sitcom shows itself later in the show. When Kevin [Feige] told me, it didn’t feel so bizarre. It felt like a great way to start our story.”
Feige previously said to Variety that he’s plan was to pay tribute to television shows he watched as a child.
“What would give me comfort after school and comfort late at night were these television shows. It was the one aspect of my youth and sort of what turned me into, for better or for worse, the person I am today. We’d never been able to really utilize that,” Feige previously told Variety. “My love of all sorts of movies and genre movies has absolutely been poured into all 23 movies you’ve seen us make at Marvel Studios already, but that aspect of my past, we weren’t able to even consider necessarily being able to do anything with it.”
See Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff) and Paul Bettany (Vision) in WandaVision now streaming on Disney+ with the first few episodes available to watch.
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Source: ELLE
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