‘Doctor Strange 2’ Writer Explains Wanda’s Controversial Arc: ‘It Was There for the Taking’
thewrap.com(Warning: This post features spoilers for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”Fresh off a massive opening weekend box office, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is proving to be one of the more divisive Marvel movies in recent memory.
Fans seem to be split over the decision to peg Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff as the antagonist in the sequel – a fact that was obscured in the marketing, but one many expected given the character’s transformation into the Scarlet Witch in the comics.But the shift from hero to antagonist proved difficult for some fans to swallow coming off the character’s deeply empathetic portrayal in “WandaVision,” which explored how her grief over Vision’s death manifested in holding an entire town hostage.
That’s a bit different than slicing and dicing an entire secret group of superheroes in “Doctor Strange 2.”So how did Wanda come to be the villain of this sequel?
TheWrap asked writer Michael Waldron, who signed on to the project while still working on Marvel’s “Loki” Disney+ series. Waldron and director Sam Raimi inherited “Doctor Strange 2” from previous director Scott Derrickson but opted to take the story in a different direction.“There was always the notion of her as part of the ensemble and this discussion of does she go bad at the end?
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