Following her devilish antics in WandaVision, Agatha Harkness will return to the Marvel universe. The newest trailer reveals her uniting her coven, and taking a deadly journey down the Witches’ Highway.
The eccentric Agatha first appeared within the Marvel Cinematic Universe within the WandaVision sequence as a nosy neighbour named Agnes. Nonetheless, the seemingly innocent girl turned out to be a robust witch seeking to tackle Wanda Maximoff’s distinctive powers.
Viewers got here to like this sassy, hilarious and ruthless witch, so it’s no surprise that Marvel gave Agatha her personal sequence. The present will make up a part of section 5 of the MCU, and right here’s all we learn about it.
Agatha All Alongside launch date
The sequence concerning the intelligent witch will premiere on Disney+ on Wednesday 18 September 2024, with two episodes.
The present, described as a miniseries, will run for 9 episodes.
Agatha All Alongside was initially scheduled to debut within the winter of 2023, however the manufacturing was pushed again because of the Hollywood business strikes.
What time do new episodes of Agatha All Alongside launch?
The primary two episodes of Agatha All Alongside will debut on Wednesday 18 September 2024 at 9pm ET/6pm PT. That implies that UK viewers received’t get the brand new episodes till the day after, Thursday 19 September, at 2am BST.
New episodes will roll out every week right now, which was launched for Loki season 2.
Agatha Harkness sequence official title
Initially, the present was titled Agatha: Home of Harkness, however was renamed Coven of Chaos in July 2022, and for Darkhold Diaries in September 2023. Those that thought that was the final change had been mistaken.
On 13 Could 2024, Marvel followers had been stunned by Agatha: The Mendacity Witch with the Nice Wardrobe title, which was revealed on social media. Nonetheless, the tweet was rapidly deleted.
Lastly, the last word title was revealed on 14 Could at Disney’s Upfront presentation. Kathryn Hahn, who portrays the witch, introduced the present is named Agatha All Alongside – a transparent reference to a beloved track from the WandaVision present.
The fixed title adjustments appeared a part of Disney’s advertising technique to gas followers’ curiosity within the sequence.
Who’s Agatha Harkness?
Agatha first appeared in 1970’s Unbelievable 4 #94 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. She was depicted as an aged nanny employed by Mr. Unbelievable and Invisible Girl to care for his or her son, Franklin. Because it turned out, she was a witch who remembered the sinking of Atlantis and was one of many defendants within the Seventeenth-century trial in Salem. After many adventures with the Unbelievable 4 and Scarlet Witch, Agatha was lastly burned on the stake. Nonetheless, she returned to life, and ultimately she regained her youth.
Within the comics, Agatha was Wanda’s mentor who taught her the right way to use and management magic powers. Ultimately, she found that the Maximoff kids had been merely manifestations of the soul of Mephisto – certainly one of Marvel’s villains – and erased Wanda’s reminiscence of them, defending her from the trauma. Nonetheless, when Scarlett Witch found the reality, she killed Agatha in chilly blood.
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Agatha Harkness was probably the most highly effective witch on the Earth. Amongst different skills, she might levitate, teleport, use telekinesis, manipulate the 4 parts, forged illusions and skim folks’s minds. She additionally had a well-recognized, cat named Ebony, possessing mystical powers.
Agatha All Alongside plot
Spoilers for WandaVision under.
In WandaVision we noticed a a lot grimmer model of Agatha. Quite than Wanda’s mentor, she was her enemy and power-seeking sinister witch – although she was nonetheless humorous and charismatic. On the finish of the sequence, she was trapped by Wanda within the persona of Agnes and condemned to stay in an atypical world.
In Agatha All Alongside, filmmakers depict Agatha’s destiny after the occasions of WandaVision. Due to Rio Vidal, her previous pal, she finds a approach to break Maximoff’s hex. Nonetheless, she realises she’s powerless. To reclaim her skills, she gathers the coven of witches and units on a path stuffed with darkish magic, harmful creatures and enemies.
As grim as it could sound, the sequence can have a comedic twist – creators promised that the present will function musical numbers much like the viral ‘Agatha All Alongside’ from WandaVision. We’ve already heard certainly one of these at D23 – Down the Witches’ Highway.
The outline of the sequence’ episode 1 reads:
Within the first episode we see Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) lastly escape of a spell she has been trapped in. She will’t wait to return to her previous murderous methods solely to seek out that she is powerless. The one approach ahead for her is to embark on a deadly quest to get her powers again with the assistance of an unlikely pal or two.
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Showrunner Jac Schaeffer informed Leisure Weekly that the present takes inspiration from different witches in popular culture, together with Elphaba and Glinda from Depraved.
The article additionally revealed that the Witches’ Highway includes a sequence of trials. If those that stroll it fail, they perish. In the event that they succeed, then they get their deepest needs – it’s a spooky twist on the Yellow Brick Highway.
These trials place the witches in intriguing settings, together with one the place they’re dressed as a Fleetwood Mac-style band, and one other impressed by an 80s summer time camp. As well as, quite a lot of the particular results within the present are sensible, as defined on this behind-the-scenes featurette:
Agatha All Alongside forged
Within the upcoming sequence, Kathryn Hahn will reprise her function as Agatha Harkness. Additionally returning to their roles can be:
- Emma Caulfield Ford – Sarah Proctor/Dottie Jones
- David Lengel – Harold Proctor/Phil Jones, Sarah’s husband
- Debra Jo Rupp – Sharon Davis/Mrs. Hart
- David Payton – John Collins/Herb
- Asif Ali – Abilash Tandon/Norm
- Kate Forbes – Evanora Harkness, Agatha’s mom
- Brian Brightman – the Eastview, New Jersey sheriff
So far as we all know, Elizabeth Olsen received’t seem within the sequence.
The forged additionally contains:
- Aubrey Plaza – Rio Vidal, a witch
- Patti LuPone – Lilia Calderu, a 450-year-old Sicilian witch
- Sasheer Zamata – Jennifer Kale, a sorceress
- Joe Locke – Teen
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley – Hulkling, Billy’s boyfriend
- Emma Caulfield
- Debra Jo Rupp
- Ali Ahn
- Maria Dizzia
- Okwui Okpokwasili
Agatha All Alongside trailer
The primary teaser for the present mocks darkish crime sequence and reveals Agatha within the new function:
The second trailer reveals us extra concerning the coven:
Whereas not an official trailer, this stay efficiency of The Ballad of the Witches’ Highway is enjoyable to look at:
There’s additionally this clip, revealing a personality however bleeping out his identify. He’s presently suspected to be both Billy Maximoff or Billy Kaplan:
