On June 9, Disney+ will unveil its third collaboration with Marvel Studios, when the much-anticipated Loki hits the streamer. And according to Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, the upcoming show will have more an impact on the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe than either WandaVision or The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had.
Despite the many twists and turns that these two TV streaming shows brought to the Marvel canvas, the events in Loki will offer much greater consequences for Marvel’s future and what’s to come on the big screen in the years ahead.
In an interview with Empire Magazine, Kevin Feige shared the big declaration.
“It’s tremendously important. It perhaps will have more impact on the MCU than any of the shows thus far,” Feige said. “What everybody thought about WandaVision, and was sort of true, and The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, which was sort of true, is even more sort of true for Loki.”
Considering Sam Wilson took up the Captain America mantle in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, and Wanda Maximoff became the Scarlet Witch in WandaVision—both expected to be majorly explored in the MCU going forward, this is a big statement to make.
“You want to see, after six hours or so, characters change and evolve,” Feige said. “We don’t make these shows to not be radical, right?”
Loki will begin following the events after he escaped from custody with the Tesseract during the Avengers’ time heist in Avengers: Endgame.
The show’s director, Kate Herron, gave a glimpse of some of what fans can expect from Loki, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“In terms of the themes, I love grey areas,” she said. “The show is really about what makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? Loki is in that grey area. It’s exciting to be able to tell a story like that. As a director and a writer, you don’t necessarily understand why you are making these stories. Something I keep getting drawn back into is identity.”
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Sophia Di Martino, and Richard E. Grant. The Marvel series debuts July 9th on Disney+.
