A recent addition to a stunt performer’s resume hints that Joe Locke will be playing a grown-up version of Wanda Maximoff’s son Billy Kaplan, a.k.a. Wiccan, in Agatha: Coven of Chaos.
Agatha: Coven of Chaos is being kept under wraps by Marvel. Patti LuPone, who stars opposite Kathryn Hahn, recently leaked quite a bit of information about the show while on The View. LuPone revealed that she’ll be playing a 450-year-old Sicilian witch named Lilia Calderu, as well as the fact that Locke would be playing “a familiar,” which is a magical entity forced to obey a witch.
Rumors have long circulated that Joe Locke would be playing an older version of Billy in the show. While the prospect that he would be playing a familiar dampened the idea in many people’s eyes, it didn’t entirely discount it. That is until the Twitter account Scarlet Witch Updates noticed that the resume of actor Jamie Sears would be playing a photo double of “Teen/Billy” for Joe Locke. While anybody can add anything to a resume, this speculation is supported by the original image from the Twitter account no longer being accessible and Sears removing his resume entirely from the site it was hosted on.
Recasting Billy with a new actor may come as a shock to fans of Wandavision. However, fans of the comics likely expected this for years. In the comics, Billy and Tommy were initially just Wanda’s creations like in the show, except for the key detail that they were created by two lost souls. After a bout with Mephisto, the two children were reincarnated as Billy Kaplan and Thomas Shepherd. Could it be possible the reason Locke’s character was described as a “familiar” is because Agatha holds his soul in a similar way to Mephisto in the comics?
Who else is attached to Agatha: Coven of Chaos?
Agatha: Coven of Chaos is a spin-off series of WandaVision and revolves around Kathryn Hahn’s character, Agatha Harkness. The show is being developed by Jac Schaefer, who served as head writer and executive producer of WandaVision. Schaefer was also one of the writers behind the hit Marvel films Captain Marvel and Black Widow.
In addition to Patti LuPone, Kathryn Hahn and Joe Locke, Agatha: Coven of Chaos also stars Aubrey Plaza, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Sasheer Zamata, Debra Jo Rupp, Emma Caulfield, David Payton, David Lengel, Asif Ali, Amos Glick, Brian Brightman, Kate Forbes, David Payton, David Lengel, Asif Ali, Amos Glick, Brian Brightman and Kate Forbes. Jac Schaeffer, Gandja Monteiro and Rachel Goldberg are directing the series.
In addition to Agatha: Coven of Chaos, another spin-off series focusing on The Vision is also currently in the works at Marvel Studios. With multiple spin-offs in development, WandaVision fans have a lot to look forward to in the coming years.
Stay tuned for the latest news regarding Agatha: Coven of Chaos and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content!
