Does Marvel Studios Intend for ‘WandaVision’ to Be Scary?
WandaVision will be the first Marvel, Disney+ original, featuring Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany’s Vision as a happily married couple (or so it seems). In an I Love Lucy meets Marvel Cinematic Universe fashion, the series will present a new world: one likely fabricated and willed into existence via Wanda’s immense powers. Wanda will come into her own as Scarlet Witch, which will likely threaten the very fabric of reality.
With the first full-length trailer for the series now available, various speculations surrounding the show’s tone continue to surface. At some points, it felt like a Leave it to Beaver-esque sitcom. At other points, the trailer was quite scary — not in a gory and jumpscare way, but in a maniacal laugh and suspecting gaze sort of way.
Will the show manage to capture various moods without feeling tonally incongruous; can comedy, horror, and action all fuse into a cohesive whole? Do the writers plan for the show to be scary, or was that merely a brief side effect of the odd trailer?
Kevin Feige talks plans for Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’
WandaVision, via mere existence, will be groundbreaking for Marvel Studios. The series will kickstart the Disney+ Marvel world and initiate the cross-conversation between the small screen and the silver one, as WandaVision will reportedly segue into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Yet, the show’s importance over the landscape is not its only unique trait, as the series itself will push the genre’s boundaries. At CCXP 2019, Kevin Feige said:
[We have] the opportunity to tell their story, and show more of what Wanda can do, more of what makes Vision, Vision, and most importantly, reveal a name that I’m not even sure we’ve said in the MCU yet, but we make a big deal of in the show, is the fact that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch. And what does that mean, that she is the Scarlet Witch? That’s what we play into with this show in ways that are entirely fun, entirely funny, somewhat scary, and will have repercussions for the entire future of Phase 4 of the MCU…
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WandaVision will bring to light the fact that Wanda is immensely powerful via her title as Scarlet Witch. The Infinity Saga failed to highlight her superhero title — failed to “make a big deal of” it. However, the show plans to bring it front and center. The show will reveal that Scarlet Witch that exists beneath Wanda’s surface.
According to Feige, the show plans to exploit the above narrative in a manner that will lend way to both humor and horror. The series will be scary at times; however, it will also be funny. It will be quite fascinating to see how the showrunners pull this one off — without veering too far into comedy or thriller.
