On the heels of yesterday’s news that Disney’s upcoming streaming service would be featuring aWinter Soldier/Falcon-focused limited TV series, it looks like the previously announcedScarlet Witchstandalone series will be a two-hander. Longtime MCU playerPaul Bettany, who has been the voice of JARVIS since 2008’sIron Manbefore getting to appear on screen in the artificial flesh as the superheroic android Vision, is now expected to joinElizabeth Olsenin the streaming series.
/Filmreports that Bettany will have a significant part to play in theScarlet Witchlimited series in a narrative that will likely focus on the relationship between Vision and Wanda Maximoff before the arrival of Thanos and his dusty fingers. Like theTom Hiddleston-starringLokiseries and the previously mentionedWinter Soldier/Falconshow,Scarlet Witchis expected to be six to eight episodes long and won’t be connected to either the Netflix Marvel TV universe or that of Disney’s broadcast banner, ABC. Production of the streaming series will be handled by Marvel Studios and not Marvel Television, bringing blockbuster-like budgets to each focused, limited season.
Not much more information is available on any of the MCU TV series, except for the fact thatEmpirewriterMalcolm Spellmanwill write the limited series centering on Falcon and Winter Solidier. We should expect further confirmation from Disney proper once they’ve got their marketing machine all revved up and ready to go with official cast confirmations, title reveals, release dates, and more. Disney’s not alone in trying to get their many-headed streaming service up and available to the masses, but they might just be the furthest along the track in the quest to dethrone Netflix.
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