Rolling Stone Menu ‘We Started With Sitcom Boot Camp’: Director Matt Shakman on the Making of ‘WandaVision’
The series director discusses mining series past and his own long career in television to craft a layered show that was ultimately ‘about grief and loss’
By Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios
There are few directors better qualified to helm every episode of
WandaVisionthan Matt Shakman. As a kid in the Eighties, he was a working sitcom actor, appearing in multicam hits of the day like
The Facts of Life,
Webster, and three seasons as a regular on the
Growing Pains spin-off
Just the Ten of Us. As an adult director, he’s worked on psychologically intricate dramas like
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It s fitting that Marvel s first streaming show is a love letter to golden age of TV, says WandaVision director Matt Shakman In an exclusive interview, Matt Shakman breaks down the style of WandaVision, why it is inspired from classic family sitcoms, and how the show will shape Phase 4 of the MCU. Devansh Sharma January 15, 2021 08:05:44 IST Matt Shakman, Elizabeth Olsen, and Paul Bettany in WandaVision
WandaVision is the first show in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With its focus on Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Betanny), two of the most eccentric characters of the MCU, the show isn t billed to be your regular superhero fare.
Teyonah Parris, who plays the adult Monica Rambeau, who was first introduced in
Captain Marvel. Watch Parris, Hahn, Park, and Dennings share some insight in how they all came to be in the series in the video above!
Original Theme Songs
Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (
Frozen) were enlisted to pen unique songs for several episodes, including the original theme song, spanning from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
WandaVision is such a cool, strange, one-of-a-kind project. When the director, Matt Shakman an old friend from my college days pitched it to us, we didn’t have to think about it. We loved the bright feeling of American sitcoms mixed with the deep sense of unease the story had, and it was a really inviting challenge to help set that tone.”