Endgame ‘almost had a’ Wandavision ‘post-credits scene

“Avengers: Endgame” almost had a post-credits scene that would have set up what has become Disney + ‘s “WandaVision”, according to “The Vision” actor Paul Bettany.

“At one point I was going to be in a tag, where you opened some sort of body bag drawer and there was the Vision,” Bettany told her “Wandavision” co-star Elizabeth Olsen in a video. IMDb’s “Ask Each Other Anything”. “(Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios) kind of spoke to me and said, ‘I have to shoot the shots.’ I was like, ‘Ugh!’ Because I really wanted this profit sharing.

Bettany also goes on to explain that he thought Feige was going to fire him when he was summoned to his office. “And when the boss calls you and your contract is up and calls you into the office, you know exactly what it is. And I thought I was going to be kicked out of the case, ”Bettany added.

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Bettany was a good sport about it, however, and didn’t realize he’d been called to the reunion to be introduced to the “WandaVision” show.

“I walked in and didn’t want anybody to feel uncomfortable so I said, ‘Look, it’s been a great race and I love you guys and no hard feelings,’ and they said : ‘Wait, do you stop?’ and I said, “No you’re not firing me? and they said, “No,” and I said, “Oh yeah, I’m in it,” “Bettany joked.

For Feige, “WandaVision” allows him to scratch a particular itch that the 24-movie “Infinity Saga” could not accomplish: episodic television. “Everything that influenced me as a kid, as a fan and as a spectator is what has happened in everything I have worked on,” Feige said. “Part of it, which I couldn’t do, was an obsession with TV, episodic TV and sitcoms when I was a kid.”

Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff made her debut in “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” as did Bettany’s Vision (although Bettany has been with the MCU since her debut, providing the voice for Tony Stark’s AI, JARVIS) . Despite the odd but cute romance of the two taking place in much more detail in the comics, their storyline was often relegated to the background, except when it was necessary to deliver an emotional punch. “Wanda and Vision are a very unique couple who have gone through more trauma and change than any character in our films,” Feige recently told TheWrap’s Tim Baysinger.

That’s why, when Feige was trying to figure out where the MCU would go after “Avengers: Endgame,” he couldn’t help but look at some of the pair’s classic comic book covers that depicted their stormy relationship. “These were on my desk for a long time, as I thought about what was to come,” he explained, adding that he often watched TV as a “heartwarming” factor as he finished the ” infinity war “and” Endgame. “