SCARLET WITCH Rumored Update Reveals When We Could See Elizabeth Olsen-Led Movie In Theaters

SCARLET WITCH Rumored Update Reveals When We Could See Elizabeth Olsen-Led Movie In Theaters

We have a possible update on the Scarlet Witch movie, specifically relating to when we're likely to see the Elizabeth Olsen-led project arrive in theaters. Find everything we know so far after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Feb 19, 2024 11:02 AM EST
Filed Under: WandaVision

In WandaVision, we saw Wanda Maximoff finally become the Scarlet Witch. However, her evolution ended on a tragic note when she was forced to drop the Hex around Westview and say goodbye to both The Vision and her children, Tommy and Billy. 

By the time Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness rolled around, the Darkhold had corrupted the Avenger and she went on a rampage through realities in an effort to find Variants of her twin boys. 

Verging on being a full-blown villain by the time all was said and done, Wanda eventually ended up seeing the error of her ways and appeared to bury herself beneath Wundagore after using her powers to destroy every possible copy of the Darkhold throughout the Multiverse.

A blink-and-you'd-miss-it red flash suggested she might have escaped, and we've been hearing rumblings for a while that there are plans for the Scarlet Witch to get her own solo outing, with Elizabeth Olsen likely reprising the role in a movie. 

Today, scooper @MyTimeToShineH has claimed the project is still moving forward, revealing it will either be released between Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars or following the latter. If it's the second option, Marvel Studios clearly has plans to keep Olsen in this role for years to come. 

That may be easier said than done, particularly after the actress said last year, "Specifically in the last four years, my output has been Marvel. I don’t want...it’s not that I don’t want to be associated as just this character. But I really feel like I need to be building other parts back up for balance."

"I so much want to do films right now. And I hope some of them come together in the way I feel like they can. But yeah, that’s something that I need. I just need other characters in my life," Olsen added. "There’s no longevity in one character."

Chances are that if the Scarlet Witch movie doesn't serve as Olsen's farewell to the character, then one of the next Avengers movies will.

For what it's worth, she's not expected to make appearances in either Agatha: Darkhold Diaries or Vision Quest, though we've heard the former will at least address her current status. Without the Darkhold, Wanda may have lost the ability to hop between realities, but the way she laid waste to Earth-838's Illuminati will surely come back to haunt the fallen hero.

What would you like to see from a possible Scarlet Witch movie?

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TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/19/2024, 11:49 AM
As long as the project isn’t a redemption arc - then I’m down. People seem to forget she’s a goddamn murderer of MANY innocent folks lmao
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/19/2024, 11:51 AM
@TheLobster - murderer and mental torturer. Think putting people in a mind prison is really [frick]ed up too. Even for Agatha, who was just nosy
bobevanz
bobevanz - 2/19/2024, 11:59 AM
@TheLobster - Oh do I have disappointing news for you lol
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/19/2024, 12:04 PM
@TheLobster - Also there is nothing wrong with having a strongly written character be a villain. They're the best villains. Just because she is someone we've gotten to know and like doesn't mean she has to be the good guy superhero.
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/19/2024, 3:06 PM
@bobevanz - you’re probably right ugh lol

Knowing Marvel who likes to have their cake and eat it too? They’ll probably try and pin all her murdering craze on the Darkhold and even though the events of WandaVision were 100% on her own
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/19/2024, 3:07 PM
@ObserverIO - bingo! I would rather have her become a really strong villain but I doubt Marvel has the (no pun intended) Vision to do so lol
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 2/20/2024, 2:03 AM
@TheLobster -



Loki killed thousands of people, The Avenger’s close friend Phil Coulson, almost indirectly killed his dad, and who knows who else between movies.

Yet he gets a whole series about his redemption and everyone praises it.

Why is it different for Wanda ?
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/20/2024, 7:12 PM
@MisterDoctor217 - well considering how he’s sacrificed himself to keep the multiverse alive - he’s earned a little bit of good faith but I still don’t confuse the fact that he’s a murderer either.

Perhaps, with the right projects and lead up with Secret Wars which could have Wanda sacrifice herself to make amends for what she’s done - this could be pulled off.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 2/22/2024, 11:50 AM
@TheLobster -

Yes he did, but I don’t see anyone else mentioning he’s a murdered everytime there’s an article about him.

But everytime Wanda is mentioned around here it’s always “murder!”

She hasn’t even had her redemption yet and you guys are calling her out
Deklipz
Deklipz - 5/22/2024, 1:48 PM
@MisterDoctor217 - It’s because Loki doesn’t have a vagina. If Loki was a woman or even just black it would be different.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 5/22/2024, 10:44 PM
@Deklipz -

Sometimes it truly seems that’s the only reason

As if women can’t be humans too lol
Deklipz
Deklipz - 5/23/2024, 2:06 PM
@MisterDoctor217 - unfortunately this is true. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to grow out of this mentality as a society but the way things are leaning the last few years we’re likely to annihilate ourselves before we can grow.
Repian
Repian - 2/19/2024, 11:50 AM
This movie is unnecessary. Who's interested?
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 2/19/2024, 12:22 PM
@Repian - Me
TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 2/19/2024, 10:33 PM
@Repian - Me tf?
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 2/19/2024, 11:13 PM
@Repian - me. Ufck off troll!
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/19/2024, 11:50 AM
I doubt we're gonna see anything new be announced that's gonna be released between now and the end of Phase 6, as the slate is already packed as it is.

As much as I wanna see World War Hulk, Scarlet Witch and Midnight Sons, I just don't see it happening soon without delays. And delays is something I don't see happen either anymore.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 2/19/2024, 4:35 PM
@bkmeijer1 -
"Delays is something I don't see happen either anymore."

We're in for a lot more delays, they just don't want to announce these delays until 2025 when they can distract people with Captain America 4, Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four news/trailers.

• Nov 7th 2025's Blade will be delayed, it's not been spoken about in regards to their plans for 2025
• May 1st 2026's Avengers 5 will be delayed, as a result of the Kang situation and delay to other projects
• May 7th 2027's Avengers 6 will be delayed, as a result of Avengers 5 being delayed
• June 25, 2025 Spider-man 4 will be delayed, Sony wants it in June but Disney are pressuring them to move it to Christmas

"as the slate is already packed as it is"
Phase 6 only has Thunderbolts, Fantastic Four, Blade, Avengers 5 and Avengers 6 (Possibly Avengers 7) currently over the span of three years (2025, 2026, 2027) likely turning into the span of four years (2025, 2026, 2027, 2028) when Avengers 5 gets inevitably delayed.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/19/2024, 4:54 PM
@Scarilian - okay yeah, I can definitely see Blade moving. I totally forgot about that one. I am sticking to them announcing no new movies or shows though.

And I think I mentioned it before, but I'll happily admit I was wrong though if they make delays and churn out some great movies.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/19/2024, 11:52 AM
wE ALREADY Saw the Scarlet Witch movie, Hell it even had a cool dr strange cameo in it.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 2/19/2024, 11:52 AM
House of M was her biggest comic arc and though they haven't done that I feel they hit the themes enough. If they have a great story than of course, but she can be someone who remains a bit lost for a while and pop up in a big event movie.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 2/19/2024, 12:04 PM
Scarlet Witch is one of the few characters left in the MCU I care about, so I say bring it on.

And while I agree it shouldn't be an outright redemption arc, I don't think she should be outright villainous, either. Somewhere in between would be best. Maybe introduce Magneto as her father from another reality, arriving from an incursion or something, and make him the big bad.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 2/19/2024, 12:17 PM
@SheepishOne - Her character went on a blood-filled, multi-universal killing rampage. How can something like "redemption" even be discussed? 🤨
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 2/19/2024, 12:27 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - Yall are just bitter because you'll never know what she sacrificed.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 2/19/2024, 12:29 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - There's a such think as a redemptive arc. I agree she can't be completely absolved, but she can choose to do good. Happens in comics all the time.

I think the movies and series have done a good job with foreshadowing her ultimate death. I think it would be fitting for her to do something good before dying.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/19/2024, 12:43 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - 'Her character went on a blood-filled, multi-universal killing rampage. How can something like "redemption" even be discussed?'

1.) Cos they have done it well with her character and many others (not just by Marvel) in the comics many, many times.

2.) As they already stated on WandaVision AND in MoM that the Drakhold corrupts all who use it, throw in a source accurate bit about Chthon pulling the strings and most of not all the blame can be shifter to a Demonic being allowing for a redemption arc.

That said ANY redemption arc should not be a one film thing in universe even if you show she was not in full control of her actions thus redeemed for many of the audience. The best option is to move her into more the anti-hero category alongside Magneto for the next saga, technicaly on the antagonist side but but not evil. That then sets up her turning on the Brotherhood of mutants when they cross the line for her and rejoin the side of good and a potential heroic death.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 2/19/2024, 4:37 PM
@SheepishOne -
"I think the movies and series have done a good job with foreshadowing her ultimate death. I think it would be fitting for her to do something good before dying."

That was what happened in MoM. What you are suggesting is undoing her death in order to give her a redemption before killing her again.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 2/20/2024, 4:11 AM
@SuperiorHeckler - Maybe don't see it as redemption, but having ger character arc be used as her motivation to do something good. It doesn't mean she would be redeemed.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/19/2024, 12:08 PM
We're gonna need bigger Phases.

Maybe they should rename everything up until The Fantastic Four as Phase Four and then there might be room for everything they wanna squeeze into Phase 6 right now.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 2/19/2024, 4:39 PM
@ObserverIO -
None of this stuff is actually going to happen.

It's the Disney Star Wars approach being applied to Marvel. None of the current projects are getting the interest they want and each day a new controversy or flop happens that demonstrates Disney as no longer being a viable studio for stakeholders/shareholders.

As such they announce plans and set out rumors of projects like World War Hulk, Ghost Rider, Midnight Suns, Young Avengers, Shang Chi 2, Eternals 2 and the Scarlet Witch solo movie - none of which will end up happening but act as distractions from how badly the films are being recieved.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 2/19/2024, 12:30 PM


TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/19/2024, 12:33 PM
A Scarlet Witch solo movie would be an amazing thing to see.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/19/2024, 2:46 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - Sort of like American Psycho where the protagonist is a sociapathic murderer, it would be facinating.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/19/2024, 3:27 PM
@soberchimera - Well no, unlike some people I actually watched and paid attention to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 2/19/2024, 5:05 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - what do you mean by that?
Are you referring to the Darkhold affecting her?
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/19/2024, 7:28 PM
@Slotherin - Yes, the movie hits you over the head with the fact that she manipulated and consumed by the Darkhold. They give us a huge visual cue so we know who has been affected and they show us not one but two different versions of the titular character who has been corrupted by the Darkhold and done terrible things. Telling a Scarlet Witch story now is no different than telling a Jean Grey story after the Dark Phoenix Saga.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/19/2024, 10:10 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - You obviously didn't watch or pay attention to WandaVision where she holds an entire town hostage and mindrapes them all BEFORE she gets the Darkhold.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/19/2024, 11:25 PM
@soberchimera - You used the term sociopathic murderer, she didn’t murder anyone on that show. No one said there wouldn’t be a redemption arc, of course there be guilt and remorse and making amends. That’s very different than just being a a protagonist than who is just an evil sociopathic murderer. Characters like Gamora and Nebula who participated in the slaughter of halves of whole planets just get to be protagonists but Scarlet Witch because in her grief had a mental breakdown and let a spell get out of hand is just written off forever?
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/20/2024, 9:13 AM
@TheUnworthyThor - No one said there wouldn’t be a redemption arc
There was no redemption arc though, she went on to do much worse things in Multiverse in Madness.
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/20/2024, 10:48 AM
@Slotherin - That’s a solo movie is for.
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