Marvel Studios Finally Addresses the Fate of the Scarlet Witch

It truly must be the season of the witch! After spending a little more time brewing in the cauldron, the WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along, finally made its anticipated debut on Disney Plus with a release schedule that will see it wrap up on October 30th, also known in some parts of the United States as Devil’s Night (Mephisto!). While the Kathryn Hahn-led series starts off by wading in the familiar waters of its predecessor, it quickly becomes something different..and scarier, sharing more in common with Marvel’s Werewolf By Night than WandaVision. Though she’s not expected to appear in the series, Elizabeth Olsen‘s Scarlet Witch still factors heavily into the plot of Agatha All Along, with her death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness allowing Agatha to begin to break free from the spell placed on her by Wanda in the WandaVision finale. With Wanda seemingly having met her fate and her spell broken, now is as good of a time as any for the studio to move on from the character; however, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.

Despite her apparent death in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, even the typically tight-lipped Kevin Feige teased that more adventures were in store for the character but as the years have gone by, rumblings of an Olsen-led project begin to quiet down. Recent reports have revived the hope that a Scarlet Witch solo film is back on Marvel Studios’ front burner with WandaVision and Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer reportedly working on a script with the help of Megan McDonnell, who worked on both those projects and wrote the screenplay for The Marvels. When asked recently about those reports, Schaeffer not only didn’t deny them, but she also struggled to conceal her excitement. Now we may understand why.

While speaking with The Wrap during a press event for Agatha All Along, Schaeffer may have tipped her hand a bit about the future of Wanda Maximoff in the MCU.