Marvel Studio’s original series WandaVision will premiere on Disney+ on January 15, 2021. The series will kickstart the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Marvel announced the arrival of WandaVision on Thursday night on social media. Sharing a video of the announcement, Marvel Studio wrote, “A new era arrives. Marvel Studios’ @WandaVision, an Original Series, is streaming Jan. 15 on #DisneyPlus.”
A new era arrives. Marvel Studios’ @WandaVision, an Original Series, is streaming Jan. 15 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/aejE6DNR35
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) November 12, 2020
The six-hour long series will also be Marvel Studios’ first ever creation specifically for Disney+. The announcement of WandaVision coincided with the first-year anniversary of Disney+. WandaVision will be Disney+’s high profile series after The Mandalorian. With the new show to air soon, Disney+, which had announced that it had more than 60 million subscribers in August, can look forward to an increase in its subscription base.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Marvel Studios had to push back the dates of several movies and shows, including Black Widow and Thor: Love and Thunder. WandaVision will mark Marvel’s first outing in a year following the pandemic.
Billed as a fantasy series set within a sitcom-inspired universe, WandaVision is about two super-powered beings, Wanda Maximoff and Vision, who begin to suspect that not everything is what it seems like in their ideal suburban lives.
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The show stars Elisabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision. The two had made their debut in the MCU with Avengers: Age of Ultron. They had later made their appearance in Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: End Game.
Marvel announced the fourth phase of the MCU, which will follow where it left off in End Game. The lineup includes several Disney+ exclusive shows, including WandaVision, Loki and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Disney+ also has LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special coming up this month. The streaming platform will also be premiering the Pixar movie Soul, which will premiere on December 25.