In the Marvel realm, Sam Raimi still has some catching up to do.
The Spider-Man director returns to the comic book genre with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a new sequel. Raimi recognized to Rolling Stone that he hasn’t seen the entire WandaVision series yet.
In his film, Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlett Witch, reprises her role from the Disney+ show.
He told Rolling Stone, “I just know that halfway, or maybe three-quarters of the way into our writing process, I’d first heard of this show they were doing and that we would have to follow it. Therefore, we had to really study what WandaVision was doing, so we could have a proper throughline and character-growth dynamic. I never even saw all of WandaVision; I’ve just seen key moments of some episodes that I was told directly impact our storyline.”
“I’ve got to tell the story of those characters in a way that ties in with all of the properties simultaneously. We had to make sure, for instance, that Doctor Strange didn’t know more than he had learned about the Multiverse from [Spider-Man:] No Way Home. And yet we had to make sure he wasn’t ignorant of things that he had already learned. So everything was dictated by what had become before.”
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