Following news that Joe Locke of Netflix’s Heartstopper had joined the cast, Deadline reports Aubrey Plaza is the latest addition to Marvel’s WandaVision spinoff series, Agatha: Coven of Chaos. The series is slated to arrive on Disney+ sometime next year.
Plaza, who can currently be seen in HBO’s second season of The White Lotus, has parlayed in comic adaptations before with her scene-stealing role in FX’s mutant thriller series, Legion. For this outing, her character details have not been revealed, but Deadline relays she is set to be the antagonist opposite Locke and Agatha Harkness herself, played by Kathryn Hahn (Mrs. Fletcher).
Hahn first portrayed the power-thirsty witch in Disney+’s WandaVision, which starred the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Wanda Maximoff and The Vision, played by Elizabeth Olsen (Love and Death) and Paul Bettany (Avengers: Infinity War), respectively. The show served as an epilogue to the events of Avengers: Endgame, following Wanda’s scattered journey of grief after losing yet another loved one. Under the weight of her trauma, Wanda unleashed her untapped Chaos Magic and imprisoned a New Jersey town within a fictional suburb where she and an artificial Vision hoped to live happily ever after. Harkness, drawn by the magic Wanda used to manifest this reality, infiltrated the cozy existence as Wanda’s noisy neighbor Agnes solely to secure Wanda’s mantle as the Scarlet Witch.
The series, helmed by WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer (The Hustle), will also see the return of Emma Caulfield’s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) character, Dottie. As of now, there is no plan for Olsen to appear as Maximoff in this series. However, she may return to the role in second spinoff centering on Bettany’s White Vision, which is currently in development as Vision Quest.
Agatha: Coven of Chaos is only one of many Marvel series coming to Disney+ in 2023. Samuel L. Jackson’s (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey) Nick Fury will star in the alien espionage thriller, Secret Invasion; and, Daredevil fans will see both Charlie Cox (Stardust) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Godfather of Harlem) reprise their Marvel roles as Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk in the Hawkeye spinoff, Echo, starring Alaqua Cox.