Marvel & Disney Shedding Beloved Creator To Prime Video After 10 Years Of Hits

After a decade of hits, Marvel and Disney are dropping a beloved creator, Jac Schaeffer, to Prime Video.

Schaeffer is finest often known as the creator and showrunner of WandaVision (2021), the primary MCU present on Disney+, and its spinoff, Agatha All Alongside (2024). She additionally labored as a co-writer on the MCU motion pictures, Captain Marvel (2019) and Black Widow (2021).

Now, in line with Selection, Jac Schaeffer is leaving Marvel Studios to signal a three-year cope with Amazon MGM Studios to develop, write, government produce, and direct unique collection for Prime Video. Schaeffer beforehand held an general cope with Marvel Studios and twentieth Tv.

Schaeffer delivered a decade of hits for Disney and Marvel, beginning with writing the script for the Disney animated brief, Olaf’s Frozen Journey (2017), a by-product of Frozen (2013), which was nominated for quite a few awards. From there, Schaeffer contributed to the screenplay for Captain Marvel as an uncredited co-writer, which went on to make over $1 billion on the field workplace.

Nonetheless, Schaeffer’s best accomplishment within the MCU was creating WandaVision, an enormous hit that earned 23 Emmy nominations and was extensively thought of probably the greatest TV reveals of 2021. Schaeffer’s writing specifically obtained robust reward, with many embracing the present’s creative nods to basic sitcom kinds and its exploration of deeper emotional struggles confronted by Wanda.

Schaeffer later created the WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Alongside, that includes Kathryn Hahn reprising her titular position as Agatha Harkness. Along with serving as a author and an government producer, Schaeffer additionally directed three episodes. Like WandaVision, Agatha All Alongside was additionally well-received, incomes three Emmy nominations.

Extra not too long ago, Schaeffer directed the pilot episode for a Disney+ TV collection adaptation of Holes. Earlier than becoming a member of Marvel, she co-wrote the script for the 2019 comedy movie The Hustle, a female-led remake of the 1988 movie Soiled Rotten Scoundrels, which itself was a remake of the 1964 movie Bedtime Story. Jac Schaeffer began her profession in 2009 by writing and directing the sci-fi rom-com, TiMER.