When Disney+ began to air its own MCU series, nobody quite knew what to expect. All the WandaVision trailers showed was a series about two of the more underused characters in the main movies in a trippy romp through various sitcom styles. The series, for as much as it was about its two title characters, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), gave audiences a new fan favorite in the show’s secret antagonist, Katheryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness.
Deadline reported on a recent casting coup of Broadway royalty with the news that Patti LuPone is joining the WandaVision spinoff, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, set to air sometime in late 2023 or early 2024. LuPone will be bringing her full A-game to bear against Agatha Harkness in all her gloriously witchy nastiness.
Patti LuPone, Broadway royalty with decades on the boards under her belt (alongside three Tony awards) is the woman who first opened such musicals as Evita (as Eva Perón) and the original London cast of Les Misérables (as Fantine). Over the years she’s starred in various TV series and movies, but has been making a big splash on the smaller screen lately with a recent run in Penny Dreadful (as Dr. Seward), American Horror Story, and Hollywood on Netflix where she played a movie mogul’s wife who took over the studio and advanced social change by decades. Animation fans will also recognize her as the voice of Yellow Diamond from Steven Universe. She joins Kathryn Hahn in the Disney+ WandaVision spinoff, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, though her role hasn’t been specified.
LuPone joins Hahn, of course, alongside Joe Locke (Heartstopper), Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live), Ali Ahn (Billions), Maria Dizzia (The Staircase), and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) who will be taking on the role of the series’ antagonist. Emma Caulfield Ford (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will be reprising her WandaVision role in which she played Dottie, the leader of the local women’s social circle. The show, centered around witches in the MCU, will be joining other horror-themed Marvel moments such as Peter Parker’s nightmare about Tony Stark’s death in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Doctor Strange’s battle with Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and the recent one-off, Werewolf By Night.
WandaVision saw Wanda Maximoff going through a breakdown after the death of Vision at the hands of Thanos to gain the Mind Stone for the Infinity Gauntlet. In her breakdown she magically took over the city of Fairfield, New Jersey, and forced its citizens to play parts in various sitcoms as her mind ran through her childhood memories of watching taped shows to recreate her perfect life. Every time something would break her reality, the sitcom would shift to a new style and decade. What audiences learned only partway through was that the things that went wrong were due to the actions of Agatha Harkness who had insinuated herself as the Ethel to Wanda’s Lucy in every sitcom incarnation. Her plan was to steal Wanda’s powers for herself. Agatha: Coven of Chaos will pick up after her defeat at the hands of Wanda Maximoff.
Agatha: Coven of Chaos is in production.
Source: Deadline