According to Agatha All Along series creator Jac Schaeffer, the show will see Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) join a “disparate, mixed bag of witches.”
In a recent interview with Empire Online, Schaeffer teases that in the upcoming show, Agatha will be joined by “a disparate, mixed bag of witches.”
“What they have in common is that they’re covenless witches,” Schaeffer says. “Witches are defined by deception, treachery, villainy, and selfishness. What do you do when you have a group of witches with those traits and you need them to work together? Expect a whole bunch of chaos magic.”
It’s been reported that ‘Agatha All Along’ songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have penned fresh ditties – and the show, according to its creator, will riff on all kinds of witchy lore. “[Where] WandaVision played with the form of classic TV sitcoms, [here] we do a lot of playing with what the assumptions about witches are,” Schaeffer explains. “Like, what are the shorthand visuals for witches?” But expect to find some of the emotion that permeated WandaVision – “We certainly didn’t want a one-dimensional nasty witch,” says Schaeffer. “We will have moments where we see Agatha’s true heart.” Maybe it won’t be entirely pitch-black after all.
Created by Schaeffer. It is based on the Marvel Comics character Agatha Harkness and serves as a spin-off from the series WandaVision. The show also stars Joe Locke as Wiccan, Ali Ahn as Alice, Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale, Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal, and Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu.
The show focuses on Agatha Harkness (Hahn). Harkness is a witch from Salem, Massachusetts, who acquires dark magic from her own coven during the Salem witch trials. After 300 years, she came to know the chaos magic radiating from the Westview Anomaly created by Wanda Maximoff. According to the Illuminerdi, Agatha: Coven of Chaos will pick up where WandaVision leaves off in Westview. Agatha will be freed from Wanda’s spell by a new coven of witches. See the set images. The filming for ‘Agatha’ has wrapped after six months of a busy schedule.
Speaking to Deadline, Hahn said, “We can say that the coven is strong.” Hahn added, “We can say that it is hilarious and deep. And I was moved to work with all these people every day. It was a gratuitous dream that it happened to be this group to go through that together.”
Hahn also confirmed there was very little CGI in ‘Agatha All Along’. She said, “There is very little that is not practical magic, which is our magic.” Hahn added, “That was very thrilling. [The] sets were incredible and it was like a practical… it just felt delicious. It was a very immersive experience.”
‘Agatha’ will premiere on Disney+ on September 18, 2024. It will consist of 9 episodes, with each episode having a runtime of 30 minutes.
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