WandaVision showrunner comments on last week’s shocking reveal

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

MAJOR SPOILERS for WandaVision. If you haven't watched the most recent episode of WandaVision yet, what are you waiting for? Seriously, I'm about to spoil the ending, and it's best that you go into the episode knowing as little as possible. Still with us? Away we go.

At the end of WandaVision's fifth episode, On A Very Special Episode…, the doorbell rings and Wanda Maxmioff is visibly shocked to see none other than her brother Pietro Maximoff standing there, who, as we know, was killed in Avengers: Age of Ultron. But the shocks don't end there as this wasn't the Aaron Taylor-Johnson version of the character, but the one played by Evan Peters in 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise. While speaking with Marvel.com, WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer said that the idea came early on in the process.

This show is such a mind scramble, and because it's working on so many levels, and there's so many notions of what's real and what's not, and performance, and casting, and audience, and fandom, and all of that, we just thought it would be the biggest thrill to bring Evan over to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"We loved the idea of [bringing him back]," Schaeffer continued. "And then we were like, how in the world are we going to make this make logical sense? Like, how do we justify this? Because that's the thing, you can hatch a million great ideas, but to make them land, to make them be grounded, to make them feel organic to the larger story." It was one thing to come up with the idea, and it was something else entirely to execute it, but the sitcom format frequently plays with returning relatives and recast characters. "We were rooting for it for so long, and didn't know if it would be possible," Schaeffer explained. “It was complicated to make happen. Evan [Peter] was always up for it — like, always, always, always. He is a comic book fan, and a Marvel fan. He is always up for the absolute weirdest option. And he's a pleasure — truly a pleasure to work with." Schaeffer added that everybody was really excited about the reveal, but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige wanted to be absolutely sure that "there was a reason for it" and that "it made sense."

The next episode of WandaVision will debut this Friday, and I would hope that we might get some answers about the Quicksilver reveal.