Avengers: Endgame co-writer Stephen McFeely explained why the filmmakers opted to have Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch vanish in the blip after original drafts had her survive.
Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War stunned audiences by concluding with Thanos erasing half of the population in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch. However, early drafts for Avengers: Endgame had Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch survive the Mad Titan’s decimation before the creative team changed course.
During an interview with CinemaBlend, Avengers: Endgame co-writer Stephen McFeely addressed the decision to cut Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch from the line-up of surviving Infinity War heroes. While describing a cut scene involving The Vision’s dead body, McFeely noted that Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch didn’t have any story material for Endgame that matched her arc in Infinity War:
“We had a moment where [Scarlet Witch] looked at his body in a drawer, and it was mainly just maudlin. It was also frankly from a draft where she hadn’t been blipped. Because we had a draft where she survived and was a character in Endgame. The problem was she’d gotten so much mileage and story in the first movie that she didn’t really have anything that equaled that in the second. So it was a step down.”
Elizabeth Olsen will reprise her role as Scarlet Witch in Marvel Studios and Disney Plus’ WandaVision. The series will co-star Paul Bettany as The Vision and leads directly into the feature film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, in which Elizabeth Olsen will also appear as Scarlet Witch.
Here is the official synopsis for Avengers: Endgame:
The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured the Avengers ranks compels the remaining Avengers to take one final stand in Marvel Studios’ grand conclusion to twenty-two films, “Avengers: Endgame.”
Source: Cinemablend
