Though Avengers: Endgame concluded the collection of Marvel movies that has now been dubbed the Infinity Saga, the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes on. Along with a lot of movies presently within the works as a part of Phase Four, a few of your favourite Avengers may even be venturing to the small display for restricted collection on Disney+, Disney’s streaming service, which launched late final 12 months.
A kind of collection is Loki. Tom Hiddleston will reprise his most well-known function for the present, which is thrilling information for followers who thought they’d seen the final of the fan-favorite character when Thanos (Josh Brolin) killed him on the very starting of Avengers: Infinity War. As is the case with every thing Marvel-related, although, particulars surrounding the brand new collection are nonetheless fairly scarce. This is every thing we all know to date.
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It is coming in spring 2021. Loki, which is within the early levels of manufacturing, is the third Disney+ collection set throughout the overarching MCU. It follows The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (August 2020) and WandaVision (December 2020). It will likely be adopted by Hawkeye in fall 2021.
Now we have the primary footage. Marvel launched the primary Loki footage (or no less than footage filmed particularly for a promo) in a Super Bowl teaser (seen above), wherein Loki, seemingly in an interrogation room, guarantees to “burn this place to the bottom.”
It is a prequel… kind of. Earlier than Avengers: Endgame, all we knew was that the restricted collection was going to observe Loki as he popped up all through historical past and influenced historic occasions. Within the wake of Endgame, the present goes to observe his journey after he steals the Tesseract and disappeared with the Area Stone in 2012.
Which implies this is not going to 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 shocking when he did it once more midway by way of the occasions of 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. However by the top of the critically acclaimed movie, wherein Thor revealed he thought the world of his brother, Loki developed and returned to assist Thor, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) struggle to avoid wasting Asgard from Hela (Cate Blanchett).
The Loki featured within the restricted collection, 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 obtained Hulk-smashed, so there’s a whole lot of psychological evolution that has nonetheless but to occur.”
“It is among the most enjoyable, artistic 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 can 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 Could, 7, 2021.
It will likely be helmed by Rick & Morty’s Michael Waldron. Waldron has been tapped to not solely function showrunner, but additionally write the pilot and executive-produce the collection. Kate Herron serves as director.
The solid is beginning to come collectively. Though we do not know who, if anybody, from the MCU will be a part of Loki on this experience, we do know of some newcomers. Variety studies Sophia Di Martino (Yesterday) is in talks to affix the solid, although there isn’t any phrase on her function. In the meantime, Owen Wilson has additionally been cast in a major role. And in February, Deadline solely reported that The Morning Show‘s Gugu Mbatha-Raw joined the Marvel collection, although the small print of her character are additionally being saved below wraps.
It can discover the questions all of us have. Waldon teased on the D23 Expo that the collection will reply questions like the place did Loki go after he picked up the Tesseract? May Loki ever make a buddy? And can the solar shine on him once more?
It’s six episodes. That is not very many, but it surely’s greater than we thought we would get after Loki died.
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