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“#WandaVision Showrunner on Red Herrings \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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How does an artist put a personal stamp on a project when they\u2019re working within the confines of a massive, interconnected cinematic universe? For Jac Schaeffer<\/strong>, the head writer of WandaVision<\/em><\/strong>, Marvel Studios\u2019 first-ever venture into television, the answer is to combine a unique mixture of influences that mean a lot to her and create something new within that framework.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the show\u2019s fourth episode, which expanded the scope of the series<\/a> outside the bubble of the small New Jersey town of Westview, \/Film spoke with Schaeffer about how she made WandaVision<\/em> her own, what Jimmy Woo and Dr. Darcy Lewis see in between \u201cepisodes\u201d within this universe, the difference in the way peoples\u2019 return from the Blip is depicted in this series vs. Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em>, red herrings, and more. Check out our full Jac Schaeffer interview below.
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I\u2019m always interested in how people working inside Marvel are able to put their own stamp on these big projects, so what is it about WandaVision<\/i> that makes it personal to you and your vision for the show?<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. Believe it or not, I\u2019ve never gotten that question. I love it. What makes it personal to me? I love comedy. I love sitcoms. I also love really weird stuff: I love Lost<\/i>. I love Twilight Zone<\/i>. I love Amazing Stories<\/i>. I love Hitchcock. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s personal to me, the sort of forced cohabitation of these different tones. My early career, it was hard to find my place. A lot of the stuff that I wrote didn\u2019t land squarely in any one category, and I think that\u2019s what clicked for me about this idea and what kept my energy going throughout the last two years: just how cool all of those things are if you serve them all on the same plate.<\/p>\n

We saw people return from the Blip in Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/i>, when a band member gets hit in the head with a basketball after being blipped back into the middle of a game<\/a>. But the way you chose to show Monica Rambeau\u2019s return here was much more gradual. What kind of discussions did you have about the differences in those depictions?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah, there were a lot of discussions. We, and Marvel, wanted there to be a cohesiveness to the visuals and to the phenomena. But also, this is its own show and the tone of our sequence is obviously very different, and the location is very different. So it was an opportunity in small ways to be separate. Yeah, that\u2019s what I\u2019ll say.<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019ve probably been asked a lot about the Nick at Nite inspirations for the various sitcom eras, but did you take any inspiration from any movies or TV shows when it comes to the outside the bubble storytelling for the rest of the series?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. In terms of the pop-up base and the S.W.O.R.D. of it in episode four, we had a lot of touchstones. Like Arrival<\/i> was one of them. The current shows that take you to unexpected places \u2013 things like Russian Doll<\/i> was an influence. Actually, that came out as we were writing, but episode four of Russian Doll<\/i> totally flips the script<\/a>, right? It\u2019s a totally different deal. That blew my hair straight back. I was so dazzled by that. So there were some influences like that where it was, within a season, big structural shifts.<\/p>\n

I have a couple of super granular, nerdy questions for you.<\/b> How do the television broadcasts work to Darcy and Jimmy? It looks like they\u2019re not seeing exactly the same thing that we are seeing, but are they seeing additional episodes? Are there reruns playing constantly until they see a new episode? Do they just see static? What\u2019s going on there?<\/b><\/p>\n

There are additional episodes. They\u2019re seeing additional episodes, yeah.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to change what S.W.O.R.D. stands for in the show versus what it stood for in the comics?<\/b><\/p>\n

That is a decision that has to do with larger story.<\/p>\n

Ah, a good tease there. As the show moves through the decades and you start approximating more modern styles of TV, can you tell me if we might see a significantly longer episode at some point this season, maybe even one that reaches an hour or more?<\/b><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t speak to runtime. I love it when I can just shut down a question because it\u2019s a directive that I\u2019ve been given.<\/p>\n

OK, fair enough. I\u2019ve heard you talk about how before you got this job, there were already some existing ideas for the basic premise of Wanda and Vision being in a TV show and ideas for a few cool moments that could happen along the way, but there was no cohesive vision for the series. Was writing Black Widow<\/i> similar in terms of having to reverse-engineer a narrative to fit a few pre-existing beats?<\/b><\/p>\n

No, the process there was different. There was a little bit more finding the story on Widow<\/i>, and then two other very talented writers picked that up and continued on. WandaVision<\/i> was different in that there was a lot of meat already on the bone with the idea, and then the pitch that I brought in, the larger story of it, is what we took into the writers\u2019 room and enhanced.<\/p>\n

You must have known that people were going to be applying ridiculous levels of analysis to every frame of this show, and you and your team put so much care and thought into every little detail. But you probably know that when the first season of Westworld<\/i> came out, people on Reddit<\/a> figured out the big twist a week into the season. Did you put any effort into deliberately misleading people with some of those background details in an attempt to preserve the surprise of what\u2019s really going on?<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, I didn\u2019t anticipate this, I have to say. Maybe that was naive of me. But I think also, at the time, at the very beginning of the process, how the episodes would roll out was a bit of a question. So it wasn\u2019t a guarantee that it was going to be week to week. So I didn\u2019t anticipate this level of fervor. Also, the order at which we came out \u2013 the, if I can say it, the sensation that it\u2019s become is wonderful, but I\u2019m a little overwhelmed by it. And I also, of course, didn\u2019t anticipate the pandemic and anticipate the intense desire for content. I am not on social media myself, so I\u2019m only just learning about the incredibly dedicated people online who pore over everything. That\u2019s all to say that this was a surprise to me and it has been a delight and an adventure. So I didn\u2019t expect some of the theories. But there are red herrings, yeah. But any good storytelling has red herrings.<\/p>\n

You were talking just a second ago about how you weren\u2019t sure if it was going to be rolled out week to week. Was the show more specifically designed to be released in chunks, and then the release schedule got switched around?<\/b><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t designed or pitched with any marketing or release strategy in mind at all. The agenda was make every episode awesome.<\/p>\n

Looking back on the experience of making this show, what is the thing that you\u2019re the most proud of about it?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think for a lot of people, the risk of doing a sitcom in the MCU paid off. That people showed up for it, and laughed, and felt connected, and have continued watching. Yeah, that would be it.<\/p>\n

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New episodes of WandaVision<\/em> hit Disney+ on Fridays.
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