Marvel Studios will reportedly tap Black Widow screenwriter, WandaVision creator, and Agatha: Darkhold Diaries creator to carve out a “magikal” section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Jac Schaeffer. Photo Credit: Saskia Batugowski from Ixellesderivative work: RanZag, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
This latest rumor comes from scooper CanWeGetSomeToast who wrote on X, “Just like how James Gunn was tasked with shepherding the cosmic side of the MCU, Jac Schaeffer is tasked with crafting her own “magikal” section of the universe…”
The scooper added, “The puzzle pieces are slowly falling into place.”
Just like how James Gunn was tasked with shepherding the cosmic side of the MCU, Jac Schaeffer is tasked with crafting her own “magikal” section of the universe…
The puzzle pieces are slowly falling into place 👀🔮 https://t.co/RHmHzC1eCT pic.twitter.com/fmbjiXOLco
— CanWeGetSomeToast (@CanWeGetToast) September 29, 2023
If this rumor does indeed turn out to be true, it’s another piece of evidence that Marvel Studios truly has no clue what they are doing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will likely result in even worse box office earnings than The Marvels and lower viewership than Ms. Marvel.
She told Inverse back in 2019, “I’m not interested in adhering to comic canon that is discriminatory in any way or that violates my values system.”
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Studios’ WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Suzanne Tenner. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
In the same interview she admitted she wanted to use the Marvel Cinematic Universe to “make, big positive statements.
She said, “I wasn’t a huge superhero movie fan before starting to work [at Marvel], but now that I’m doing it, there’s just so much opportunity to make big, positive statements.”
“Especially something like Captain Marvel and Black Widow, to have these female-centered stories — I just can’t not be involved in that,” Schaeffer added.
Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) in Marvel Studios’ BLACK WIDOW, in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access. Photo by Jay Maidment. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
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Schaeffer also indicated she hired the writers room for WandaVision based on gender quotas informing Inverse that the makeup of the room was “incredibly intentional, and it was very much supported by Marvel.”
The writers room featured eight staff writers with four of them being women.
To this point she also stated, “I choose to be a part of projects that are about positive representation. We need to see women, we need to see people of color, we need to see nuanced experiences, and we need to see different perspectives on screen.”
Schaeffer continued, “I choose to work with people who are interested in changing perspectives for the better, and putting a world on screen that is something we can aspire to and have conversations about, and moving in a direction that will create a world I hope will be better for my children.”
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff in Marvel Studios’ WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Schaeffer also noted she wanted to tone down the violence in superhero films. She said, “I would like to see alternatives to violence in superhero movies.”
“Maybe I would qualify that by saying, alternatives to glamorizing guns and weaponry,” she admitted. “That’s one of the reasons that I love Captain Marvel — it’s all about inner power. And the destruction is not at the expense of human life.”
The showrunner also indicated she wanted to feature more morally “gray” character as well, “My kids are really obsessed with ‘good guys vs. bad guy. Sometimes I explain [to them], ‘Every good guy can be a bad guy’ and vice versa. It’s complicated, but that’s sort of lost on them. That’s one thing that I think can be explored more in the future — I would hope that there are ever-increasing moves toward the gray and toward complexity.”
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Studios’ WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
What do you make of this latest rumor regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
She seems not only dedicated to continuing the decline at Marvel but perhaps her parenting should be called into question personally too. Ugh.
I’ve ceased to be interested in Deadpool 3 and Marvel. Disney is steering for the iceberg and appears to want to crash. I want new blood at Disney starting with me writing at Lucasfilm.
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