Avengers star describes WandaVision as a "six-hour movie"
Avengers: Infinity Waractor Paul Bettany has described his upcoming Marvel TV spin-off WandaVisionas a "six-hour movie".
The central focus of the show will be on the relationship between Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff (aka time-manipulator Scarlet Witch) and Bettany's sentient android superhero Vision.
Theories have been circulating about the show's plot, with one suggesting the whole "sitcom" will be based in a false reality conjured up by Wanda.
Vision is technically deadin the MCU, after all.
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Chatting to MTV Newsabout the TV project, Bettany discussed his initial feelings when Marvel boss Kevin Feige first pitched the idea to himself and Olsen.
"A and One, I thought I was being brought in to be fired; B and Two, I thought they were gonna let me down, you know, like, 'Listen, Paul, we love you, but...'
"And instead what he did was pitch this idea for a sort of six-hour movie that I would never in a million years – which is why he's the one earning the really big bucks – have thought of."
.@disneyplus’s #WandaVision looks to be a genre-bending ride through the @Marvel universe we’ve come to know and love. #ElizabethOlsen and @Paul_Bettany talked to us about how the show surprised them, its “sitcom” style, and how the #DoctorStrange sequel dovetails into it pic.twitter.com/PNC7C6npdy
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) August 29, 2019
"And it's so avant-garde and weird and messed up and then moves seamlessly into more familiar territory. But the place that it starts is so odd," he added.
A six-hour movie... and we thought The Irishmanhad a long runtime.
WandaVision is expected to hit Disney+ in 2021, while the service launches in the US on November 12, 2019 (but not in the UK).
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