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“What equipment do you need? How much time do you need? What are the stunt performers going to do? What are the actors going to do?” - those were the sorts of questions he knew how to tackle, he says. The Finale Had Legit Game of Thrones Energyĭirector Matt Shakman’s previous credits included two Game of Thrones episodes (Season 7’s “Eastwatch” and “The Spoils of War”), which came in handy when dealing with the scope of WandaVision‘s combat- and effects-filled season finale.And it’s one of my favorite sets that we had in the whole show.” “And through the genius of my production designer Mark Worthington, we took all the elements that we loved from our designs and managed to make it work in this courtyard, covering the top of it so it seemed like it was inside. “So we went and found this courtyard of this old hospital in Atlanta that was very unassuming,” Shakman reports. And yet it would have been incredibly expensive to build that one-off set, for just one scene. operating theater to confirm her love is beyond saving, was “a really important scene,” notes director Matt Shakman. The Episode 7 sequence in which Wanda lays eyes on a dissected Vision, and then floats down into the S.W.O.R.D. “And I was like, “That’s not me! That’s incredible prop master Russell ! I had nothing to do with that!” “Paul Bettany was like,’ This is genius! Was it you?'” recalls Schaeffer. Says head writer Jac Schaeffer, “They mostly picked up on what’s there” as well as “a million things that we didn’t mean, or that I didn’t know about - things that were in set decoration that I hadn’t noticed.” Most notably, Schaeffer was caught off-guard by the wine bottle in Episode 1, whose label - Maison du Mépris - translates to “House of Contempt,” which is a reference to the Scarlet Witch-centric House of M comic book storyline written by Brian Michael Bendis.
WandaVision of course is chockablock with Marvel-ous Easter eggs, and eagle-eyed fans left none unfound. This Easter Egg Surprised Even the Showrunner!.“Also, she announces herself as Agatha Harkness at the very end of Episode 7, and to have that turn without any seeding for the audience is pretty risky.” “It kind of makes it delicious, like, ‘When is this going to happen?'” the showrunner posited. In hindsight, would head writer Jac Schaeffer have given “nosy neighbor” Agnes a different name - like, Mildred, or Ethel - so as to keep fans from so quickly speculating that Kathryn Hahn was in fact playing AGatha harkNESS? “We talked about that, and decided that people in the know would figure it out, and that’s OK,” Schaeffer told TVLine. Head Writer Has No Regrets About Obvious Agatha Clue.Want scoop on Falcon and Winter Soldier, or for any other show? Email and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line. ( With reporting by Rebecca Iannucci and Keisha Hatchett) We hope you enjoy the dozen-plus Fun Facts below, as our collective WandaVision hangover fades. Some of them, but by no means all, you may have already seen in TVLine news stories or Q&As. Along the way, through our numerous interviews with cast and creatives (as well as at least one other site’s reporting), we have come across interesting tidbits and anecdotes that neither fell into “preview” or “spoilers” buckets, and yet were interesting nonetheless. To date, we have endeavoured to serve up scoop… share insightful interviews… whip out weekly recaps… and at least ask the burning questions we all were left with after the series’ thrilling nine-episode run ended.
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Showrunner Jac Schaeffer’s confession is among the ( we think) “fun” facts shared below, as TVLine winds down its coverage of Disney+’s first live-action Marvel series (ahead of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s March 19 arrival). WandaVision was chockablock with Marvel-ous Easter eggs - and one of ’em even nearly eluded the head writer herself!
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