‘Loki’ TV Series to Premiere Next May on Disney+ – Here’s Your First Look (Video)
Disney+ has set the premiere date and released a first look at its Marvel Cinematic Universe series “Loki,” Disney announced during an investor day Thursday.
The series sees Tom Hiddleston return as Loki, which will follow an alternate version of the character after he escaped with the Tesseract following the Avengers’ “Time Heist” in “Avengers: Endgame.” “Loki” will premiere in May 2021 and directly connect to the upcoming film “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.”
In addition to Hiddleston, Richard E. Grant, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sophia Di Martino are also part of the “Loki” cast.
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Disney+ originally intended for “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as Sam Wilson/Falcon and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, to premiere in August ahead of a planned December launch for “WandaVision,” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as their Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, Wanda Maximoff and Vision; the latter died in “Avengers: Infinity War” and was not among the many MCU characters revived in the follow-up, “Avengers: Endgame.”
However, production was halted on “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” in March due to the pandemic and didn’t pick back up until late September, prompting Disney to swap the order in which it debuted the two series.
Along with Bettany and Olsen, “WandaVision,” which will premiere Jan. 15 on Disney+, will feature the debut of Teyonah Parris as the adult version of Monica Rambeau. Kat Dennings, Randall Park and Kathryn Hahn will also be part of the series’ cast.
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The other Disney+ series in the from Marvel Studios are “Hawkeye,” the animated “What If…,” “Ms. Marvel,” “Moon Knight” and “She-Hulk.” “Orphan Black” star Tatiana Maslany was tapped to portray Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk.
Check back with TheWrap through the day for more coverage from Disney’s presentation to investors, which opened with an announcement that Disney+ has topped 86 million subscribers as of Dec. 2. Disney also revealed it plans to release 10 Marvel series, 10 “Star Wars” series and 15 live-action, Disney Animation and Pixar series over the “next few years.”
More to come…
“Glorious.”
Loki, an Original Series from Marvel Studios, is coming May 2021 to #DisneyPlus. @lokiofficial pic.twitter.com/gqT7AKur2y
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
