“Avengers: Endgame” almost had a post-credit scene that would set up Disney + ‘WandaVision’, according to ‘The Vision’ actor Paul Bettany.
“At one point I would be standing in a label, where you opened some kind of charging loader and there was the Vision,” Bettany told his co-star Elizabeth Olsen, ‘Wandavision’, in a video from Ask Any Other Anything ‘by IMDb. “(Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios) spoke to me and said, ‘I have to pull the shots. “I was like, ‘Ugh!’ Because I really wanted that profit sharing. ”
Bettany also explains that he thought Feige was going to fire him when he was called to his office. ‘And when the boss calls you and your contract is over and he’s called you to your office, you know exactly what it’s about. And I thought I would kick the case off, ”Bettany added.
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Bettany, however, was a good sport about it, and did not realize that he had been called to the meeting to set up the “WandaVision” show.
‘I went in and I did not want anyone to feel uncomfortable. So I said, ‘Look, it’s been a great career and I love you and no hard feelings,’ and they said, ‘Wait, do you stop? and I went, ‘No, are you not shooting me?’ and they went, ‘No,’ and I went, ‘Oh yeah, I’m in,’ ‘Bettany joked.
For Feige, WandaVision enables him to scratch a specific itch that the 24-movie “Infinity Saga” could not achieve: episodic television. “Everything that influenced me as a child and as a fan and as a viewer is everything I worked on,” Feige said. “One part of it, which I could not, was an obsession with TV, with episodic television and with sitcoms as a child.”
Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff debuts in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, just like Bettany’s Vision (although Bettany has been with the MCU since the beginning and gave the voice to Tony Stark’s AI, JARVIS). Despite the two’s strange-but-cute romances that play out in more detail in the comics, their storyline was often pushed into the background, except when they needed to give an emotional gut. “Wanda and Vision are a very unique couple who have been through more trauma and change than any of the characters in our films,” Feige recently told Tim Baysinger, TheWrap.
Therefore, when Feige was trying to figure out where the MCU would go after “Avengers: Endgame,” he couldn’t help but look at some of the classic comics of the couple that portrayed their stormy relationship. “Those were standing on my desk for a long time while I thought about what was next,” he explained, adding that he often viewed TV as a “comforting” factor while watching the emotionally heavy ‘Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame. ”