Schaeffer is, nonetheless, delighted to speak about Agatha All Alongside as a now-completed work. Commenting on current stories that Marvel scuttled plans for a Hulkling look, the showrunner reveals one other Marvel-ish character that she was adamant on together with.
“After all, Hulkling is gonna be a dialog as a result of we’re coping with characters that contact Hulkling,” she says. “However as soon as we have been writing, the forged was what it was. I’ll say that it was my private mission to get Ralph Bohner again on the chessboard. I used to be like ‘I’m not doing the present except Evan Peters is in his trailer.’”
Along with Evan Peters’s unlucky Westview resident, Agatha All Alongside noticed Schaeffer reuniting with WandaVision‘s not-so-secret weapons: EGOT-winning composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Schaeffer describes going to the pair with an bold request to craft “The Ballad of the Witches’ Highway,” a track with many alternative iterations that might be the narrative and thematic spine of the whole collection.
“Fortunately, they love that type of problem,” Schaeffer says. “However greater than WandaVision, I needed to get a little bit bit within the weeds with them with the lyrics. They wanted to line up with the mythology we have been constructing about witchcraft, the reality of the ballad, what it means, and the place it got here from. I used to be anticipating them to start out with the sacred chant, which is the one they do within the basement, however they elected to do the ’70s Alice’s model first.”
The subject that Schaeffer is happiest to debate, nonetheless, is her favourite second from Agatha All Alongside‘s nine-episode run. Although the collection had many standout sequences in its latter half, Schaeffer factors to a comparatively unassuming change from the second episode during which Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) tells Billy a.ok.a. Wiccan (Joe Locke) that the Witches’ Highway isn’t actual.
“That is without doubt one of the only a few moments within the present the place Kathryn is performing fact,” she says. “I like the film Warmth. And in Warmth, if they simply had killed Waingro, the entire thing can be over. If [Billy] had simply listened to her, it will be over. We wouldn’t have gone off on this monumental journey. I simply love Kathryn. She’s a witch. She’s a complete witch.”
