![Elizabeth Olsen Says She’s Pitched A White-Haired Wanda Returning 50 Years Later To Marvel [Exclusive]](https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20121325/Elisabeth-Olsen-WandaVision-Wanda-Scarlet-Witch.jpg "Elizabeth Olsen Says She’s Pitched A White-Haired Wanda Returning 50 Years Later To Marvel [Exclusive]")
The Scarlet Witch isn’t gone — she’s just waiting for the right portal to reopen. Elizabeth Olsen, who’s spent the past decade oscillating between Marvel mythology and bold, auteur-driven projects, says she loves playing Wanda Maximoff and would return to the role “in a heartbeat.” But for now, there’s no multiverse plan in motion. Speaking with The Playlist while promoting her new film “Eternity,” Olsen confirmed she’s not in “Avengers: Doomsday” and admitted she has “no idea how or when” Wanda might reappear.
“I’ve been really proud of what we’ve been able to make. Really proud,” Olsen said of Wanda’s journey through grief, power, and loss. “But I don’t have an answer for that.” When told fans could imagine her turning up in “Avengers: Doomsday,” she smiled. “Well, I can’t. Honestly, I do wait. I want to see [her] return in this role because I think what they’ve done with her is really great, and I love the journey she’s taken. I think it’s always a fun one to get to go back into, and I just have no idea how or when, for sure.”
While Marvel’s future remains a question mark, Olsen has been channeling her focus into two ambitious, director-driven projects. One is Todd Solondz’s “Love Child,” a darkly comic psychological story about an 11-year-old boy who tries to orchestrate a relationship between his mother (played by Olsen) and a charming tenant after his abusive father’s near-death. The other is Panos Cosmatos’s “Flesh of the Gods,” a neon-soaked 1980s vampire thriller co-starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac, following a couple pulled into a glamorous and violent underworld of immortality and addiction. Both films remain in active development, and Olsen suggested they may still happen at some point, though she acknowledged that each faces the kind of financing and scale challenges that make them difficult to mount right now.
“I’m not really interested in just jumping from franchise to franchise,” she said. “I’m hoping to make things that are more reflective of culture and our time.” Describing both projects as “ambitious” and “challenging to audiences,” she added, “They’re not sub-$5 million projects, and the whole industry is trying to figure out how to make their money back right now for films that have a higher budget.”
Olsen also reflected on the shifting terrain of modern filmmaking, lamenting how many large-scale projects skip theaters entirely. “A lot of the biggest-budget projects, most of them don’t get theatrical releases these days,” she said. “They just go, which I think is such a shame when you have such power behind them.” Still, her optimism lies in the creative intimacy of smaller productions. “When you have less money, you have to be more inventive,” she said. “You get more of a leader in the director’s creative vision.”
So while Wanda Maximoff’s next appearance may still be a mystery buried in the multiverse, Olsen’s own direction is clear — she’s chasing the kind of cinema where risk and imagination still matter. More from this interview soon. — Additional reporting by Rodrigo Perez.
