Forthcoming Disney+ seriesLokihas found its director. The news arrived early Saturday morning just as the second day of the 2019 D23 Expo was kicking off. The series will seeTom Hiddlestonreprising his role as Loki, the God of Mischief and baby brother of Thor (Chris Hemsworth), after he escaped from the Battle of New York inAvengers: Endgame.
On Friday, directorKate Herronfinally revealed in a tweet that she would be directingLoki. “Secret is out! So happy to say I’m directing#Lokifor@MarvelStudios,” Herron wrote. “It’s a privilege to continue his story, working with the superb @twhiddleston&@michaelwaldron. Also sorry to pals who guessed this was the secret job and I lied to your faces. Think Loki would approve though.”
Herron skimped on providing any other details about her involvement with the show but that’s pretty much par for the course. To date, she is probably best known for directing the first season of the Netflix coming-of-age comedy seriesSex EducationstarringAsa ButterfieldandGillian Anderson. Additional Herron directing credits include work on various comedy shorts. AlthoughSex Educationwas a win for Netflix and should similarly be considered one for Herron, the sheer magnitude and visibility of a project likeLokiwill surely be a boon to her profile as a director.
As previously mentioned, Hiddleston will return to the role of Loki for the Disney+ series. The version of Loki leading this solo venture is one out of time. After dying at the hands of Thanos at the beginning ofAvengers: Infinity War, Loki returned inEndgameduring a time-traveling sequence back to 2012 during the events ofThe Avengers. It will be this version of Loki who is featured in the series as he travels to various time periods and through space now that he has possession of the Space Infinity Stone.Lokiwill be six hours long (six episodes clocking in at one hour each) and, according to Hiddleston in aninterview with MTV News, features foes “the likes of which [Loki] has never seen before.”
Lokiis one of five new TV shows Marvel Studios has in the works for Disney+. Those other shows includeHawkeyestarringJeremy Renner,WandaVisionstarringElizabeth OlsenandPaul Bettany,The Falcon and the Winter SoldierstarringAnthony MackieandSebastian Stan, and finallyWhat If…?starringHayley Atwellin addition to a metric ton of addition MCU stars.
Lokiarrives on Disney+ in Spring 2021.
