Marvel Studios unveiled its first trailer for its live-action Disney+ series last night, WandaVision, and it looks like it’ll be a strange trip.
Vision was first introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Tony Stark uploaded his home’s AI, J.A.R.V.I.S. into a body that Ultron had created for itself. Vision became his own person, and fought alongside the Avengers in Sokovia and alongside Stark’s allies after the introduction of the resulting Sokovia Accords. Vision fell in love with Wanda Maximoff, and the two became partners, up to the events of Avengers: Infinity War, during which Vision perished when Thanos forcibly pulled the Mind Stone from his head.
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This series is set in the aftermath, and it looks like Vision isn’t quite as dead as he seems. The teaser spins through a number of different TV eras as Vision and Wanda finds themselves in a new home. But it’s not long before Vision begins to notice some strange things. He can’t remember where he came from, and when he helps a woman, she tells him that he had died. It’s a bit of a headtrip, and it seems like Vision isn’t dead, but is in some sort of artificial afterlife. There’s also a nice little Easter Egg at one point: Vision walking along a street during what looks like Halloween, dressed in the character’s original costume from the comics.
The series is part of a new slate of live-action shows for Disney’s streaming platform, and will be part of the franchise’s “Phase Four” releases. That phase includes movies like Black Widow, The Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder, as well as a handful of live-action TV shows: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and Hawkeye. Of that lot, WandaVision is the first to debut on Disney + (a change from plans earlier this year. Disney scheduled The Falcon and the Winter Soldier for an August debut, but the Coronavirus shut the production on that series down.) The show had been scheduled for December, but this latest trailer doesn’t say when it’ll debut—just coming soon.
So a Bewitched revival with a glass of the Tom King/Gabriel Walta mini-series? I’ve heard worse ideas.
@NickPheas: Yeah, definitely seeing lots of overtones of King’s series. Also, given that Wanda is involved, I’m wondering if they’ll touch on the House of M part where Wanda creates kids out of nothing.
Also, it deeply amuses and disturbs me both that we’ll probably never see a House of M(utant) storyline streaming on the House of M(ouse) service. :-P
This looks fascinating, actually.
It will be great if “Coming soon” means sooner than December. Of all the Marvel Disney+ shows that have been announced, this is the one to which I’ve most been looking forward. I’m here for trippy and surreal. :)
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There are baby twins in the preview.
Oh my, but this does look like some good old crack-tacular FUN … (and the presence of Ms. Kathryn Hahn is generally a strong indicator of oncoming hilarity, to say the least).
This looks fun!
Evan Peters (Quicksilver from the X-Men films) is in this, supposedly as Nightmare, a Doctor Strange villain. This makes sense, because this series is supposed to be connected to Multiverse of Madness, Strange’s next film. But I want to believe he’ll actually be playing an alternate dimension Quicksilver.