Disney confirms Kathryn Hahn-led WandaVision spin-off series Agatha: House Of Harkness
Hahn will reprise her witchy role for the Jac Schaeffer series
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A series fully focused on the evilish witch Agatha Harkness is officially in the works at Disney. During the company’s Disney+ Day, it announced that the upcoming WandaVision spin-off show will be called Agatha: House Of Harkness.
In the announcement, Disney simply says Hahn will reprise the role her character in WandaVision, promising to reveal more about the witch. First teased in October, Variety described the series as a dark comedy. WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer will return to serve as writer and executive producer on the series. This will be Schaefer’s first project since signing an overall deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television.
Hahn’s Agatha quickly became a fan-favorite of WandaVision, starting out in the series as Wanda and Vision’s nosy neighbor Agnes. As it turns out, their neighbor was actually a meddling, powerful, centuries-old witch named Agatha.
They even had a catchy little, worldwide popular song called “Agatha All Along” for the reveal. Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for their internet trendy tune.
When we last saw Agatha, she had been trapped in Westview by Wanda a.k.a. Scarlet Witch. Originally serving as Wanda’s mentor in the comics, Agatha went full dark mode in the series finale.
Hahn earned an Emmy nomination for her work as the witch pulling all the strings, and spurred the phrase “Hahnaissance” in reference to her career highlight.
As a skillful character actor for well over a decade, Hahn broke out in comedy films Step Brothers and Anchorman. For the last few years she’s stuck to television roles, most recently with her lead role in another Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell project, The Shrink Next Door. Her first film since 2018 will be Rian Johnson’s forthcoming Knives Out 2.
No plot details for Agatha: House Of Harkness have been revealed yet, but it’s expected there could be more MCU crossovers and an even further expansion of the universe. Maybe we’ll even end up with a spin-off of the spin-off series.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Agatha Rocks. Kathyrn Hahn is awesome.The real story of the Disney announcements today is X-Men The Animated Series is coming back with X-Men ‘97!!!! Inject that right into my veins and shoot me to the moon.
Oh hell fuckin yeah! And continuing the story with the original cast and creators. I’ve been waiting for this since I was 13.
but will it have Morph? That was the one who wasn’t in the comics, right?
He was originally called Changeling in the 60’s comics, but they changed (heh) his name to Morph for the show due to a DC trademark issue.
lol his powers were so generic that I assumed they just made him up, they always need that shapeshifter character…apparently his personality isn’t related to changeling if my friend wikipedia is right, so it kind of is that
I want to make a confession. It was not until WandaVision that I fully realized that Kathryn Hahn was an absolute smokeshow goddess. I have no excuses. I apologize sincerely. I ask for the grace of your forgivness and the chance to re-earn your trust.
My crush started with Step Brothers.
Might I direct you to her HBO show, Mrs. Fletcher…
Celebrity Movie Archive was my friend…. I found it. I’m dead now.
Yeah there was something about her no-bullshit attitude in Parks & Rec that did it for me.
disney needs to be shot into the sun approximately 4 years ago
Your timeline is off by about 30 years. It’s too late now.
Unfortunately Disney owns the rights to the sun, which they’re apparently permanently sunsetting in Q4. So you’re on a time crunch.
Ooohhh…. you MIGHT be able to get through half-melted butter with that edge.
I just hope Disney lets the character keep some of the edge that made her interesting in the first place. By which I mean she needs to be killing at least one dog per episode. Make The Kathryn Hahn Dog-Killin’ Hour, you cowards.
House of Harkness: Sparky Must Die
All Dogs Go to Heaven (Because Agatha Just Straight-Up Killed Them)
Where the Dead Fern Grows
Dead Dog Day Afternoon
House of Barkness
Sparky dies in every episode. It may or may not always be her fault.
They have to get Keanu Reeves into the MCU somehow.
With special guest star: the bass-player from Dog Star.
Does the Silver Surfer have a dog?
Wait what
I shouldn’t feed the corporate machine, but the logical endpoint seems like Agatha v. Cruella: Dawn of Synergy.
Well, not so much “dawn” as “way the hell into it”, but whatever.
Kathryn Hahn is good. Not sure where this will go, though. Is there some other media style they could riff on since they’ve already done sitcoms? Maybe it could be a show in the form of a series of stand-up routines Agatha delivers from Salem 1693 to the present?
Agatha Harkness in the comics is a very interesting character, which relied on mystery and never knowing whether she was good or bad. That will be more difficult here, but if they trust in Hahn and don’t go too far in either direction (misery or bad comedy), it could work. I could see her sort of being in her own, screwed-up version of Highway to Heaven or Touched By An Angel where she tries to help people, in her own way, for questionable reasons. My main question is whether there’s enough animus toward the MCU products at this point to tank this out of the starting gate, and if the people who hated the end of WandaVision don’t come back. I guess we’ll see.
Spoiler: There won’t be enough animus.
That will be more difficult here
Yes and no? We already got a version of that with Loki. Where the main character seems to really want to do right but because of who he is even the audience isn’t always sure that he’s on the up and up.
“What do Scarlet Witch and Daredevil both have in common?They both wear red and lost their Vision.”
“What’s the deal with the satan?”
“And then I said, Mephisto? With those hands, it’s more like Mephisto-please, am I right?”
Mrs. Fletcher with some hexing to go along with the sexing.
Oh, gosh! Hopefully it’s a prequel that sands away all the rough edges and places her in a squarely positive light, causing us to reconsider everything we learned in WandaVision (i.e. she loves to pretend she kills dogs, but really it’s just an elaborate ruse to f*ck with people). Also: it’s about trauma.
The twist: she actually kills baby seals instead.
Agatha Harkness’ real secret is just that she’s Faroese.
She wrote “A Modest Proposal”, and the twist is it’s not a satire.
It will ultimately culminate in a CGI-filled aerial fight, regardless of the lack of action scenes up to that point.
As long as there are witches endlessly shooting color-coded magic bullets at each other, I’m in!
That fight was so underwhelming even by MCU standards. Doctor Strange’s fight in Infinity War set the bar way higher for magic-fights.
Here’s hoping Agatha and Sylvie cross paths at some juncture. The banter would probably be amazing.
I’m hoping it’s basically just The Golden Girls but with her and Bova…
Oh, damn. It’s Disney+ Day already? I didn’t even get a tree.
Everyone don the traditional officially-licensed festive mouse ears!
♫ M I C…I see you’re not wearing the traditional officially-licensed festive mouse ears.
For an artist to undergo an “—aissance,” shouldn’t they first endure a period of being stuck in some sort of creative dark ages? The McConaughaissance was a thing because Matthew McConaughey spent years trapped in sub-par romcom doldrums before finally taking some roles that didn’t totally suck. I’m not aware of Hahn being forced to suffer through poorly-plotted, horridly-written vehicle after vehicle before landing the role of Agnes/Agatha.
Yeah, this more of a “Hahn-wakening” than a “Hahn-aissance,” really.
They will greenlight literally anything but more Daredevil.
Nah, it’s coming eventually. I’m 99% sure Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock is Peter’s attorney in NWH.
Wait ‘til we find out they got some wires crossed and Charlie Cox is playing Mephisto.
Will y’all just give the people (read: me) what they (read: me) want already?Lose all the superhero gibberish and the tall red jerk-off.
Elizabeth Olsen.
In little outfits.
Fin.
I just don’t see that character carrying a series, but I’m sure Hahn can. I guess add it to the shitload of other Marvel shows coming out.
Marvel has announced 218 new spinoff series, one for each extra across Wandavision
You joke, but if they want to do a full Fred Melamed spin-off in the MCU, I am ready and waiting.
Melamediverse
ugh would literally rather watch her do ANYTHING else.