Patti LuPone has been our go-to source of information on Agatha All Along from the moment she prematurely let slip the first details on her divination witch character, Lilia Calderu. But now Brad Winderbaum, the head of streaming, television, and animation at Marvel, addresses what the future might hold for the WandaVision successor series.
In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, we asked Winderbaum how Marvel thinks about limited versus linear series, using Agatha All Along running for Emmys in the main Drama category as a reference. "I think it's 'linear series potential,'" he says of Agatha All Along. "A show like Agatha, to me, is concept based. Yes, a second season for sure is something that we would want to do, but let's not rush it. Let's get the right idea and then make it."
This somewhat aligns with what LuPone divulged (again when she probably shouldn't have) to Andy Cohen on the Bravo host's SiriusXM show. "There won’t be one," the actress said in that February interview about the fate of season 2. "Jac Schaeffer, the creator, came into my trailer and she said, 'Patti, I’m just here to tell you that Lilia’s going to die,' and I went, 'But I wanted a second season,' and she said, 'I don’t do second seasons.' She said, 'They wanted me to do a second season of WandaVision and I didn’t.' She said, 'There’s too much to write,' so she does one-offs and I’m really hoping and praying that someday I get to work with her again because she’s magic."
When asked to comment about LuPone's recent comments, Winderbaum playfully tells EW, "What'd she say?"
"All I know is Patti's unbelievable," he adds, on a more serious note. "Her performance in that series is just incredible. That show, that's one of my favorite things hands down that I've been a part of. And the chemistry of that cast and Jac in that showrunner role, it just really was magic. Sorry, that's cheesy, but it really was."
At the very least, there's Vision Quest (working title), which will pick up the WandaVision storyline from Agatha All Along in a series centered on Paul Bettany's "white" Vision.
Winderbaum also points to Hawkeye, which starred Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as arrow-slinging protégé Kate Bishop. So far, it only had one season, which ran in December of 2021.
"Hawkeye is another one that feels like you can make a second season of that show because it's Christmas, because it's Clint and Kate. You can kind of revisit it whenever, and we're looking for opportunities to do that. But as we develop things for the future, I think they're going to be designed to be multiple seasons, have more of a pattern, and be able to be released annually."
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