Disney+ and Marvel lastly unveiled a primary have a look at its upcoming MCU sequence Loki through the Disney Traders Assembly, releasing a trailer that exhibits Tom Hiddleston again in motion because the fan-favorite character. Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, was final seen within the MCU in Avengers: Infinity War, when Thanos (Josh Brolin) killed him on the very starting of the movie.
The brand new Disney+ sequence is formally a part of Marvel’s Phase Four, and is without doubt one of the first MCU exhibits coming to the streaming service, together with WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As is the case with every part Marvel-related, many particulars surrounding the brand new sequence have been stored beneath wraps, however here is what we all know to date.
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It is scheduled to debut in Might 2021. Loki is the third Disney+ sequence set throughout the overarching MCU. It follows WandaVision (January 2021) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (March 2021), and can be adopted by Hawkeye in late 2021. The sequence’ launch was delayed after manufacturing shut down as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The brand new premiere date was introduced through the Disney Traders Assembly in December 2020.
We’ve got the primary trailer. Feige revealed the primary full trailer (seen above) for Loki through the Disney Traders Assembly in December 2020. The trailer kicks off with the Avengers: Endgame scene by which Loki makes use of the Tesseract to flee his captors through the Avengers’ time heist. He winds up handed out in the course of a desert, the place he wakes as much as encounter three strangers. The trailer additionally provides a primary have a look at Owen Wilson’s character, who tells Loki, “Time passes in a different way right here within the TVA” — a reference to Marvel Comics’ Time Variance Authority, a gaggle that displays all of the timelines within the multiverse and eliminates essentially the most risks ones. The trailer additionally exhibits varied variations of the character, together with one sporting a marketing campaign button together with his personal identify on it.
The trailer got here 10 months after Marvel launched a Super Bowl teaser, by which Loki, seemingly in an interrogation room, guarantees to “burn this place to the bottom.”
It is Marvel’s first crime thriller. Throughout the Disney Traders Assembly in December 2020, Marvel boss Kevin Feige stated, “As with our different exhibits coming to Disney+, we needed to strive one thing somewhat totally different, discover a brand new style for us at Marvel studios. So we have put Loki on the heart of his personal crime thriller.”
It is a prequel… type of. Earlier than Avengers: Endgame, all we knew was that the restricted sequence was going to comply with Loki as he popped up all through historical past and influenced historic occasions. Within the wake of Endgame, the present goes to comply with his journey after he steals the Tesseract and disappeared with the House Stone in 2012.
Which suggests this won’t be the developed Loki of Thor: Ragnarok. Because the god of mischief, Loki has betrayed Thor (Chris Hemsworth) quite a few occasions all through their lives, so it wasn’t overly stunning when he did it once more midway by means of the occasions of 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. However by the tip of the critically acclaimed movie, by which Thor revealed he thought the world of his brother, Loki developed and returned to assist Thor, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) combat to avoid wasting Asgard from Hela (Cate Blanchett).
The Loki featured within the restricted sequence, nevertheless, is the Loki of 2012’s The Avengers. As Hiddleston stated at San Diego Comic-Con final summer time, “He is nonetheless that man [from Avengers], and nearly the very last thing that occurred to him was he received Hulk-smashed, so there’s quite a lot of psychological evolution that has nonetheless but to occur.”
“It is without doubt one of the most enjoyable, inventive alternatives I’ve ever come throughout,” he continued. “It’s a new problem, and I can’t wait to get began.”
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It would tie into the Physician Unusual sequel. We already knew WandaVision was going to tie directly into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, however now Marvel’s Kevin Feige has confirmed Loki will also be connected to the film, which is scheduled to be launched in theaters Might, 7, 2021.
It will likely be helmed by Rick & Morty’s Michael Waldron. Waldron has been tapped to not solely function showrunner, but in addition write the pilot and executive-produce the sequence. Kate Herron serves as director.
The solid contains some main expertise. Though we do not know who, if anybody, from the MCU will be a part of Loki on this trip, we do know of some newcomers. Variety experiences Sophia Di Martino (Yesterday) is in talks to hitch the solid, although there isn’t a phrase on her function. In the meantime, Owen Wilson and Richard E. Grant have been cast in major roles. And in February, Deadline completely reported that The Morning Show‘s Gugu Mbatha-Raw joined the Marvel sequence, although the small print of her character are additionally being stored beneath wraps.
It would discover the questions all of us have. Waldon teased on the D23 Expo that the sequence will reply questions like the place did Loki go after he picked up the Tesseract? Might Loki ever make a buddy? And can the solar shine on him once more?
It’s six episodes. That is not very many, however it’s greater than we thought we would get after Loki died.
