WandaVision will do Scarlet Witch justice by bringing diverse voices to the table

WandaVision’s showrunner is determined to include a wide range of perspectives on the series’ creative team, and that’s exactly what we’ve been asking for.

WandaVision is among the many Marvel series planned for the Disney+ streaming service launching in November, but it’s beginning to look like the one we’re most excited about. The series will follow Wanda — better known as Scarlet Witch — one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s heroines we simply haven’t seen enough of during the first three phases of films. And it looks like this female superhero’s story will be told by a diverse group of women — a big step in the right direction for Marvel.

Jac Schaeffer, the showrunner for the upcoming series, made a point of pushing for a writer’s room that was primarily female and offered a wide range of voices. And it looks like Schaeffer achieved what she set out to accomplish. Not only are four of the eight writers hired for WandaVision women, but many other creative staff members are as well, meaning that Wanda’s story will bring a variety of female perspectives to the table. And that’s exactly how you do a female superhero justice, isn’t it?

WandaVision isn’t the first female-led Marvel project that Schaeffer has helped to produce, either, and it seems the showrunner is dedicated to ensuring that the franchise becomes a platform that welcomes all of its fans, not just the ones who are men. She also co-wrote Captain Marvel and will serve as the screenwriter for Black Widow, two other films that strive to erase the sometimes problematic comic canon surrounding the women of the MCU.

Schaeffer has repeatedly made it clear that she isn’t here to please Marvel fanboys who want the MCU to adhere to its more traditional tropes, and her insistence on including women in the creation of WandaVision gives us hope that the series will be a success that welcomes viewers from all backgrounds.

“I felt incredibly strongly that we needed women and people of color and people of all backgrounds and perspectives in the room,” Schaeffer said during an interview with Inverse. “I believe — I think it is fact — that stories are better the more perspectives you have.”

We couldn’t agree more with that sentiment, and the fact that Marvel has been so supportive of Schaeffer’s vision speaks volumes about where the MCU can go in the future. We’ve been asking for a more diverse slate of superhero stories, and it looks like we’re finally getting them. We can’t wait wait to see where they take us.

WandaVision is currently set for a spring 2021 release.