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Elizabeth Olsen could return to Disney Plus in a new series. According to a new report, she could reprise her role as Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, in the upcoming seriesVision.
Olsen made her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in 2014. She portrayed the powerful mutant sorceress, Scarlet Witch, inCaptain America: The Winter Soldier.She has since appeared in several MCU movies, includingAvengers:Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).She also starred in the Disney Plus TV mini-seriesWandaVisionalongside Kathryn Hahn (Agatha Harkness), Kat Dennings (Darcy Lewis), Paul Bettany (Vision), Evan Peters (Ralph Bohner), Randall Park (Jimmy Woo) and Teyonah Parris (Monica Rambeau).WandaVisionwas a success and it spawned the spinoffAgatha All Along. Another show is in the works,Vision, and Olsen could reprise her role in the upcoming series.
AfterVisionwas confirmed, several reports about the anticipated series were published. According toDeadline, Bettany will play the titular character. He has portrayed Vision in three Marvel movies —Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018)— and in theWandaVisionseries. James Spader will return as the villainous android Ultron and the outlet notes thatthere’s a possibility of Olsen appearing in the show as Scarlet Witch, since she is connected to Vision, who is the focus of the series.
Olsen’s return as Scarlet WitchinVisionis a possibility, but she might not make a lengthy appearance in the series. In a 2023 interview withThe Times, she said that her only project in the last four years was Marvel and she didn’t want to be caged in her MCU character. Olsen hoped to make more films. She clarified, however, that she didn’t mean she no longer wanted to be associated with Scarlet Witch; she just wanted to balance her career.
Olsen said:
I really feel like I need to be building other parts back up for balance. I so much want to do films right now. And I hope some of them come together in the way I feel like they can. But yeah, that’s something that I need. I just need more, other characters in my life. There’s no longevity in one character.
Scarlet Witch and Vision have an epic love story.Visionis deemed the third part of a trilogy that includesWandaVisionandAgatha All Along, perThe Hollywood Reporter. Scarlet Witch’s story in WandaVision continued in theDoctor Strangesequel.She vanished inDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessandVisioncould set her reunion with the vibranium-based male android, whom Ultron created to be his body. The duo could work together to beat Ultron.
Wanda and Vision didn’t just fall in love with each other. The two were always emotionally connected becausethe Infinity Stone– Mind Stone – intertwined them. When Wanda was a child, Hydra took her and experimented with her using the Mind Stone in Loki’s scepter. During the fall of Hydra, the Avengers recovered the scepter, but Ultron took it away, and when its blue gem casing shattered, the stone was released and integrated into Vision’s head. Considering how powerful both are, their tandem would be a great highlight in theVisionseries. Whether Olsen makes a brief or long appearance inVision, her presence would surely make the anticipated series even better.
