The production used era-appropriate sets, costumes, and effects to recreate the different sitcom styles that the series pays homage to. Schaeffer was hired in January 2019, with the series officially announced that April, and Shakman joining in August. By September 2018, Marvel Studios was developing a number of limited series for Disney+ centered on supporting characters from the MCU films such as Maximoff and Vision, with Olsen and Bettany returning. Schaeffer served as head writer for the series, which was directed by Matt Shakman.Įlizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprise their respective roles as Maximoff and Vision from the film series, with Debra Jo Rupp, Fred Melamed, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, and Evan Peters also starring. It follows Wanda Maximoff and Vision as they live an idyllic suburban life in the town of Westview, New Jersey, until their reality starts moving through different decades of sitcom homages and television tropes. It is the first television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise, and is set after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame (2019). WandaVision is an American television miniseries created by Jac Schaeffer for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Vision. For now, we are stunned by this unbelievable gift and excited about the opportunities it provides for us to serve our community in new ways.Marvel Cinematic Universe television series We look forward to announcing plans for the remainder of the funding in the future. We are honored to be able to use a portion of this gift to help students stay on their higher education pathway. These students were impacted by COVID, yet they persisted and graduated.
The San Jacinto College Board of Trustees, the San Jacinto College Foundation Board of Directors, as well as our employees and students, both current and future, are deeply grateful for this very generous gift! We weren’t expecting it, and it came at just the right time so we could put programs like 21Forward in place to help the students in East Harris County who made it through their senior year.
Brenda Hellyer to the Houston Chronicle following the news: She provided the following statement from SJC Chancellor Dr. Of that $2.7 billion, San Jacinto received a whopping $30 million that will fund up to three years of tuition for students enrolling in the fall 2021 semester, towards either an associates degree or workforce certificate.įenwick said to her knowledge Scott does not have any ties to San Jacinto College or the local area. "Higher education is a proven pathway to opportunity, so we looked for 2- and 4-year institutions successfully educating students who come from communities that have been chronically underserved." She wrote that she and her husband Dan Jewett and others "are all attempting to give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change." "People struggling against inequities deserve center stage in stories about change they are creating," Scott, 51, wrote.
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PAST COVERAGE: San Jacinto College anonymous donor gives free tuition to 2021 high school gradsīut now Scott, who is also an author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced in a blog post Tuesday that she has given $2.7 billion to a variety of charities working to combat racial discrimination, bringing her total donations since her first giving spree in July 2020 to $8.5 billion. In a previous story by the Houston Chronicle, Amanda Fenwick, the school's vice president for marketing and public relations, said even she wasn't aware of the amount, but knew it was enough to cover the 5,000 eligible graduates within San Jacinto's six independent school districts, in which the students are required to live to receive funding. In early June, San Jacinto College omitted the name of the private donor and the amount of the gift when announcing its new "21 Forward" program designed to provide Class of 2021 high school graduates with free tuition.