After several years of a sustained pace in both films and series with around ten projects for each medium from 2021 to the end of 2023, the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally calmed down under the leadership of Bob Iger. Thus, we will only find in theaters Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024, which will be released at the end of the month, becoming an event like before. On Disney+After Echo in January, This is another character already encountered in a previous series who will make his return in the coming months: Agatha Harkness. His project has finally started to show itself. on the side ofEmpire who shared a first visual accessible to all (some shots of the filming are included in a making of of the Blu-ray box set of WandaVision).
Appeared in WandaVision as an antagonistwe knew that the witch would have her own show for years, the title of which has continued to evolve since then. Agatha: House of Harkness, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Agatha: Darkhold Diaries…she could even have simply named herself Agatha. Good player, Marvel Studios even had fun with it when he finally made its final title and its release date official in May, sharing the day before on Twitter / X a quickly deleted visual where her name was Agatha: The Lying Witch with Great Wardrobea fun reference to the first volume of the saga The world of Narnia.
In the end, it was Agatha All Along (“Agatha every time”)! Yes, it was named after the song from episode 7 of WandaVision :
For once, it’s quite well seen and the music was used during its announcement, let’s hope that it serves as the credits. At any rate, its first two episodes will be broadcast on Wednesday September 18 in North America (presumably Thursday the 19th in the morning in France) and the other seven will follow at a rate of one per week until November 6. Suffice to say that autumn will be placed under the sign of witches this year, the perfect period for such a project.
To return to the visual ofEmpirewe therefore find there Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) accompanied by four other women, all witches Obviously, which will have in common not being part of a sabbath as revealed by the director Jac Schaeffer. We must clearly expect a hell of a stir on the screen!
Witches are defined by deception, betrayal, infamy and selfishness. What do you do when you have a group of witches who [démontrent] these concepts and you need them to work together?
WandaVision played with the form of classic TV sitcoms, here we play a lot with assumptions about what witches are. Like, what are some visual shortcuts for witches? We definitely didn’t want a one-dimensional evil witch. We will have moments where we see Agatha’s true heart.
On the role side, Patti LuPone is Lilia Calderuwho in the comics is the granddaughter of Nikolaithe very first Baron Mordoand therefore a descendant of Cagliostro gifted in the art of divination. Sasheer Zamata plays Jennifer Kale ; Debra Jo Rupp is camping again Sharon Davis who was a resident of Westview and therefore also a witch; And Ali Ahn plays a certain AliceAs for the plot, we’ll have to wait until the first trailer to know what to expect, but it seems that the group stumbles upon something unexpected at the bottom of this cellar.
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