Resident WandaVision scene-stealer, Agatha Harkness, played by Kathryn Hahn, may be getting her own series. Jac Schaeffer, the head writer of WandaVision has been tapped to pen the script. Schaeffer has an overall deal with Marvel and Disney’s 20th Television.
WandaVision racked up an astounding 23 Emmy nominations including one for Best Supporting Actress for Hahn and one for writing for the first episode for Schaeffer. The series was also nominated for Best Limited or Anthology Series, which included Schaeffer as part of the production team.
Also nominated and WINNING was “Agatha All Along” a special theme song written just for Hahn’s character, penned by married songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who also composed award-winning songs for Disney including “Let It Go” from Frozen, “Remember Me” from Coco, and “Into the Unknown” from Frozen II. (Not to mention “Lost in the Woods” from Frozen II which is better than all those others combined!)
“Agatha All Along” won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and also broke into the Billboard Top 40! Anderson-Lopez and Lopez also wrote the other episode-specific theme songs for WandaVision‘s opening credits sequences, which paid homage to sitcoms from different decades.
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet seen all of WandaVision there are spoilers below!
Agatha first appeared as “Agnes” the nosey neighbor of Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) who found themselves living in the ’50s-inspired neighborhood of Westview, New Jersey, after the events of Avengers: Endgame. The two superheroes found themselves trying to fit into a normal suburban existence as the show moved up one decade after another in each episode. It was revealed that as a child, Wanda had grown up devouring American sitcoms which influenced this magical world. “Agnes” fit the stereotype of the “nosey neighbor,” along the lines of Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched and Mrs. Roper on Three’s Company.
Of course, by the end of the series, it was revealed that Agnes/Agatha was a real witch who had been tortured during the Salem Witch Trials and that Wanda was actually the supreme witch… the Scarlet Witch. This is something that will further play out in the feature film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness… and now, apparently, in an Agatha spinoff TV series.
Are you intrigued at the thought of an Agatha series starring Kathryn Hahn?