Who didn’t show ‘Vandavision’ EP Jack Schaefer and why in ‘Series Final’ – Deadline

Spoiler alert: with the following visit Vandavision EP and lead author Jack Schaefer include spoilers about the series’ final episode “The Series Final.”

If you haven’t already read our recap Vandavision‘The Series Final’, you can read it here.

But let’s get down to brass fans ASAP by telling us what happened to the Disney + / Marvel series EP and the main scribe Jack Schaefer and where the Scarlet Witch is going. Schaefer has a story buy-credit on next Black widow The movie is currently set to release in theaters on May 7, and he co-wrote the screenplay for MGM Anne Hathaway and the rebel Wilson Come Come Mady. The Hustle.

So, as the episode’s title suggests, this is actually ‘The Series Final’, right?
Jack Schaefer: It’s like what Mr. (Kevin) Fij says, ‘The plan to have a second season wasn’t necessary, but in a world of surprises you’ll never know.’

Was this the same end you had imagined from the beginning, that Wanda realized he was the Scarlet witch, Vision and the sons disappeared with Hex, and he would set out for the desert? Or is there an alternative ending that the writers were swinging in any shape or form?
JS: Not really. This is essentially what we envisioned from the beginning. This was always going to be a story about grief, and we took it seriously, and it’s a little less, but we’ve used the grief phases to map the arc of the season, and we know we want to take it. Location of acceptance. It’s an acknowledgment in two ways, finally Wanda accepts the cover of the Scarlet Witch, and then the second and perhaps more important thing is that it’s her sad acknowledgment and the fact that she’s let Vision and the boys go. So, you know, things changed along the way and there were discoveries and enhancements and the final kind of all sorts of ins and outs were always moving, but the real goodbye scene was written pretty early in the beginning and we were all one. Behind it.

Tell us about setting up a complete picture of Wanda’s grief.
JS: Comics has its history, its story in comics is one of the losses. It is something that often defines her in character mixes and in MCUs and determines her character. She has been a more serious character and a character who seems to be bound by her own ness and grief at the time, and so it is clear where we wanted to start and what we wanted to build. We saw a chance with Sitcom’s overlay to see Wanda and Lizino trying on all these different colors, you know, she’s fun and naughty and flirtatious and seeing all these different things. We can dig into all the different sides of this woman, but in comics and MCU this woman has probably suffered more than anyone else, and that was the thing we wanted to explore and work with.

How did you prepare for the meeting when you first hired yourself? Have you read House of M? Do you have this idea to map the phases of grief? What made Marvel shine and what was your angle?
JS: They sent me a bunch of the mixes and I looked at them. I am not a very good comic reader. I have a very difficult time digesting storylines and I never know which cell to look at, and I don’t know, I’m disappointed, probably, for pleasure this way, but the image is always, of course, very surprising and moving and inspiring, And it was Kevin Fig’s idea to marry Wanda and Vision in the sitcom world. So, I had to start those pieces, and then his desire to explore her anguish and that whatever happened in this series, the situation of this sitcom, it was his expression of sorrow and his desire to live in this fantasy world. .

What I brought was a framework for that. You know, after seeing her in the com mix, I thought it might be fairly speculative if we tell a linear story, you know, Wanda is annoyed and she’s freaked out and she makes this false world and then it’s sitcom . I didn’t find it interesting. It doesn’t look like an interesting watch. It felt a little kind of through the numbers and was hard to dig emotionally. So, I put forward the idea that we start with this sitcom, and with Wanda not knowing what we are running and we have planted red herring and wondering if there is such a weak force for it, And we’ll do it with her in search of her, you know? We start denying it and then we turn to anger. It was part of my pitch that she couldn’t kick the Monica character out of the hex, and that’s where we move on from, and in that part of the training she would be a complete discovery of the stages of her life and how this really happened, that she had to face it to move on. Fell, and it really is … you know, it’s kind of an idea that in the end the bad guy has to go to the arsenal to keep the weapons to win. . Well, in this case, it’s grief. So, at the end of the story he needs to look at everything on his face, to be equipped with what he needs for victory and recovery.

With the removal of the hex, what happens to Agatha and Quixliver? Do they disappear with it? All the people of the city return to themselves. Can you tease anything?
JS: Well, as you can see in the episode, Wanda puts Agnes / Agatha under a spell at the end. It brings to life the character she created. So, as far as I know Agnes is hanging out for baking some cookies in Westview, and after that, I can only talk in my own series.

What about Quixliver? Can we see it again? Everyone liked the meta thing Marvel did here by casting the actor from the Fox / Marvel version for the part.
JS: All I can say is that I think Evan Peters did an incredible job with this role and I’ve had so much fun both working with him and watching him on screen, and you know, as a fan, I’m interested See what he does next.

He is Ralph, Agnes’s husband, essentially.
JS: Yes. The idea is that Agatha came to town and took possession of a neighbor’s house to hide, and there was a young man named Ralph Boehner who already lived in Westview. In the writers’ room, we had fun writing Agatha’s sense of humor, and so the idea that she would really talk about her hostage throughout the series really gave us a sense of humor.

Why doesn’t Mephisto appear? There was a lot of speculation that Mephisto would be the ultimate villain at the end of the series.
JS: We don’t think this series needs a big bad. I mean, there’s a big bad grief, you know, and that’s the story we were telling, and then we got a bonus bed in the form of Agatha Harkness, who facilitated Wanda’s treatment, so yes, I think we had a lot Sounds good. About it.

In the first end-credits sequence, Monica is told by a school agent that in ‘that’ space, she needs to be seen. Many believe ‘it’ is Nick Fury. Care to comment?
JS: I’m going to comment on that because I don’t have to comment. But I really appreciate how closely you are watching and I appreciate all your principles.

How will the post-credit sequence work? Do you write it on the fly? Or is it well written in advance?
JS: Yes. I mean, on all those Marvel projects that I’m lucky to work on, tugs are the thing that’s constantly evolving because it’s the tissue attached to the next project, it’s the handoff, and sometimes they’re the way it is. Late in the game. In this particular event, with scroll tugs, surprisingly it was, as I wrote, it was one of the first tgs, and then it went through a set of repetitions, and then we got back to that essential idea. It’s just that they develop during the creative process.

Do most of the MCU Disney + series authors and big screen features enter a large weekly Marvel Writers’ Room? So the writers behind Captain Marvel 2 And Doctor Cutter Fantastic 2, And batting around ideas to connect stories? Or is Kevin Fees or another manufacturer running from room to room in each project and suggesting tidbitts from an overlapping project that should be included in another?
JS: I can only talk about my own experiences at Marvel, and you know, from where I sit, it’s been more organic than that. I haven’t been in a big room with a bunch of different writers on other projects. I’ve just sat down with a few other teams to put the brains together and make sure everyone is looking at whatever issue is going on and everyone has the information they need. Usually it’s clearly Kevin who has a masterplan and who needs to communicate. I enjoyed it because it feels like a living creature. It’s not something that’s commanding that way. It kind of flows. Nice.

But, really, why did Vision and the kids have to go?
JS: Agatha tells him in the episode: When Wanda created Hex, who essentially cast her spell intuitively, he did it wrong, and he connected Vision and the children to this world. So, she bound herself in a bondage where she kept people under the control of the mind that made them really suffer that she, Wanda, was unable or unwilling to see. That’s what she was doing, and she connected the kids to this world. Not to take it too seriously with metaphor, but we often think of it because hex is this huge placenta and she created all this inside her, and children and vision will not be able to survive outside of it.

But here she is a woman who is going through grief, who created this world and family to deal with, and then she has to leave him? Why For the good of humanity and its own evolution?
JS: Yes. For both of those things, because it is wrong to imprison all these people. You know, Agatha finally gives him a deal. He says, I can spell correctly and I can remove the pain of all people, but we all know that if you remove our suffering, we will no longer be human, and that is the journey that He has to move on. She has to accept her pain and suffering and see what it is, that it is not all sadness, that the thing inside the sadness is also a celebration of what is now gone.

Where is it in the desert? It’s definitely not Thanos ’cabin Avengers: Endgame Because it belonged to the tropics.
JS: We, the audience, don’t know where Wanda is in the tag.

Given what this female-dominated series looks like, what percentage of your writers’ room consisted of female writers?
JS: The actual authors are half women and half men, but with Mary Livnos and I and my assistant, the majority of the room was women.

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