Last Updated: April 6, 2021
Thor’s brother Loki, the god of mischief, is getting his own TV show on Disney+, so here’s everything we know about it so far. Tom Hiddleston has so far played Loki in six Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, starting with 2011’s Thor and most recently appearing in Avengers: Endgame during a “time heist” that revisited the events of The Avengers. Loki has been everything from an untrustworthy ally to an outright villain in the Marvel movies, but now he’ll be the star of his very own series.
Loki’s showrunner is Michael Waldron, who previously worked on Community and Rick and Morty, so we can probably expect him to bring some comedy elements to the show. Loki is planned as a miniseries, but there’s always the possibility of a continuation into multiple seasons if it proves successful and there is already speculation that Loki has already been renewed for a second season (though an official announcement has not been made).
He may be a rascal, but Loki is as well-loved as any of the Avengers (perhaps even more), and fans are eager to see him back on the screen. From release date information to plot details, here’s everything we know about Loki so far.
Loki TV Show Release Date
The Loki TV show will premiere June 11, 2021 on Disney+. Loki was always planned to be released in the spring of 2021, but was pushed back from its May release date by a month. WandaVision was also originally planned to debut around that time, but it got bumped forward to December 2020. Production on the Loki show commenced in January 2020, but the Coronavirus pandemic put a halt to the proceedings, as it did to many movies and TV shows. The series resumed production in September 2020 and wrapped in December.
Loki TV Show Story Details
Fans who watched Loki die (admittedly not for the first time) in Avengers: Infinity War may be confused by him returning in a TV show — but, it’s easily explained. According to the official synopsis, Loki follows Thor’s unruly brother as he “pops up throughout human history as [an] unlikely influencer on historical events.” This is made possible by starring the version of Loki from the Avengers: Endgame timeline where he escaped custody with the Tesseract, enabling him to interfere with human history via his own means of time travel.
The multiple trailers and teasers have confirmed this, though Loki will find himself arrested by the Time Variance Authority, an organization tasked with protecting the timeline. In the latest trailer, TVA agent Mobius reveals Loki broke reality when he vanished during Endgame and he wants the trickster god to help the agency restore it. It’s likely Loki will break free from the TVA to wreak some havoc of his own and it’s possible he might be stopped by Judge Renslayer, who’s assumed to be the love interest and foe of Kang the Conqueror, the time traveling villain who will appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Loki TV Show Cast
Tom Hiddleston will obviously reprise his role as Loki and function as the series’ lead, and it would be surprising if Chris Hemsworth didn’t at least drop in for a cameo, given his love of side projects like Team Thor. Owen Wilson was also announced as part of the cast in early 2020, and it’s been revealed he’ll play Mobius M. Mobius, the TVA agent trying to work with Loki. Another confirmed addition is British actress Sophia Di Martino, who reports have suggested might play the woman version of Loki. It’s also been rumored that the Loki series could introduce Sera, who would become the MCU’s first transgender character. Black Mirror’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw will play Judge Renslayer (aka, Ravonna Renslayer), Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15, The Walking Dead’s Cailey Fleming, Sasha Lane, Erika Coleman, and Star Wars’ Richard E. Grant have also been cast in so far undisclosed roles, though the latter is suspected to be playing an older version of Loki.
Loki TV Show Connects to Thor 4 & Doctor Strange 2
While this hasn’t been officially confirmed by Marvel, reports suggest that the Loki TV show will directly set up the events of Thor: Love and Thunder by seeing Loki somehow return to the main MCU timeline, with an alternate version of Mjolnir in tow. This will reportedly be used to facilitate Jane Foster’s transformation into The Mighty Thor. Additionally, Disney boss Bob Iger has confirmed that Loki will connect somehow to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, another MCU Phase 4 release, which will also include Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch, fresh off of her own Disney+ series WandaVision. What form Loki’s connection will take remains to be seen.
Loki TV Show Trailer
During the 2020 Super Bowl, Disney+ released a combo trailer for some of its upcoming Marvel Studios series, Loki among them. Loki got the least amount of footage between WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but there have been a couple more trailers and an exclusive clip revealing some new and exciting footage. The latest trailer (which can be watched above) offers fans a lot more details about the story and what to expect from the series.
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