WandaVision is a sitcom inspired series that will explore Scarlet Witch’s powers

Marvel WandaVision
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WandaVision, Marvel's first original Disney Plus TV show, is set for release sometime in 2020. From the trailer, it was ♚apparent that the series is inspired by classic sitcoms – and now, thanks to , we know just how much those shows 💙influenced the series’ development.

Kevin Feige, President of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios, explained: “I would get ready for the day and watch some old sitcom because I couldn’t take the news anymore... Getting ready to go to set over the last few years, I kept thinking of how influential these programmes were on our society and on myself, and how certainly I was using it as an escape from 𒆙reality where things could be tie💞d up in a nice bow in 30 minutes.”

The first episode of WandaVision was even filmed with a live studio audience, and the production also used the same techniques as a vintage sitcom – with cr🌳ew members in period dress. Head writer Jac Schaeffer said: “The show is a love letter to the golden age of television," but explained that WandaVision will make the sitcom genre its own: “We’re paying tribute and honouring all of these incredible shows and people who came before us, [but] we’re also trying to blaze new territory.”

As research, director Matt Shakman and Feige even chatted to Dick Van Dyke at Disneyland: “[The Dick Van Dyke Show] can be very broad with☂ silly physical-comedy gags, and yet it never feels false, and I wondered how they did that,” Shakman said. “[Van Dyke’s] answer was really simple: He basically said that if it couldn’t happen in real life, it couldn&rsquoဣ;t happen on the show.” 

It won’t all be '50s sitcoms, however – as well as hopping through ꧂time periods, the show will also explore Wanda’s reality-twisting powers.

Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda, said: “It𓃲’s been the biggest gift that Marvel’s given me, getting to do this show.” She added: “You get to jusℱt focus on [Wanda] and not how she felt through everyone else’s storylines.” 

Wanda and Vision’s strange love story will also be a key part of the series, with Schaeffer commenting: “It’s always so appealing when outsiders find each other.” She went on to say that, “they’re both different with capital Ds. Wanda has so muc🌄h pain, and Vision has so muchꩵ curiosity.”

It sounds like we’re in for something weird but m💮oving, with Wanda and Vision’s “quirky relationship”, as co-star Paul Bettany puts it, at the heart of the series.

Until WandaVision hits the small screen, check out everything we know about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 4 so far.

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections.ꦆ I previously worked on the Disney magaz𒀰ines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.