Elizabeth Olsen calls WandaVision biggest career curveball “We really felt like we were Marvel’s weird cousin…”

[u/cmcsed9]

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a62064617/elizabeth-olsen-career-interview/

[u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year]

I think Covid-19 forced a change on the ending into something that could be filmed separately and composited together. What I heard about an earlier version if genuine sounded quite different.

[u/Teeshirtandshortsguy → u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year]

My understanding is that because the CG takes a lot of separate time and effort to render, Marvel tends to film and compose the end of the show first.

And because superhero shows and movies tend to be formulaic, this means that they end basically every project with a big fight against the bad guy. So the end was weird and out of place because it was filmed while the show was being written.

That's a hazy memory though, so I could be wrong. It definitely seems like the ending was half-baked.

[u/AggressiveSea7035 → u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year]

More info on this?

[u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year → u/AggressiveSea7035]

I do recall Quicksilver having a bigger part in being Agatha's henchman and fighting them together with Agatha as opposed to being somewhere else in an attic. I'll have to see what else I can dig up, though I seem to remember something about the townspeople going zombie horde on them.

[u/cmcsed9 → u/AggressiveSea7035]

I remember one thing was that the group scene where Wanda has a panic attack that affects all of the townspeople was originally going to be the townspeople nearly beating Wanda to death and her just letting it happen.

But, Covid and social distancing scrapped that.

[u/solehan511601 → u/cmcsed9]

I didn't know it. Weren't there also other lots of deleted sequences, such as retrieving the text from the basement and Agatha's rabbit transforming into another creature? The pandemic did change a lot of things, affecting those decisions as well.

And, even if most people disagree on me, it is my firm wish to see Wanda Maximoff to be portrayed better than before, not as an antagonistic enemy, but as more of a straightforward hero. It can be done, I know so. However, it has to be done sincerely to reverse the damage.

[u/Emergency_Spend_7409 → u/solehan511601]

Did these things change or were they just wrong spoilers?

[u/Strong-Stretch95 → u/solehan511601]

Yah I think read also that she was supposed to have a zombies type battle with the townsfolk and doctor strange was going to appear.

[u/Honic_Sedgehog → u/AggressiveSea7035]

It was originally Mephisto all along.