TV SERIES · 2021–2023 · USA
Loki
- Created by
- Michael Waldron
- Network
- Disney+
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 12
- Studio
- Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige Productions
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After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.
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21 Facts From the Making of Loki
- #001
By September 2018, Marvel Studios was developing a limited series centered on Loki for Disney+, the streaming service of its parent company Disney.
- #002
The Loki series was expected to run six to eight episodes and to have a budget comparable to that of a major studio production.
- #003
Loki was to be produced by Marvel Studios rather than Marvel Television, which had made earlier MCU television series, with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige believed to be taking a hands-on role in its development.
- #004
Marvel Studios decided to produce a Loki series because the character had story potential and had lived for thousands of years in the MCU, allowing the show to fill in gaps in his unseen adventures.
- #005
The Loki series was expected to follow Loki as he appears throughout human history, acting as an unlikely influence on historical events.
- #006
The series gave Marvel Studios a chance to work with Tom Hiddleston more, explore Loki beyond his supporting film role, and show him forming new relationships instead of only developing his bond with Thor.
- #007
By exploring Loki in a series, Marvel Studios allowed his previous film appearances to keep their integrity, so the show did not have to retread those storylines.
- #009
Contains a major spoiler — show
The scene in Avengers: Endgame where a 2012 version of Loki escapes with the Tesseract was not written to set up a future television series, as Loki was not planned at that time.
- #010
When Tom Hiddleston filmed the Endgame scene in 2017, he did not know where Loki had gone with the Tesseract and only learned of plans for the Loki series about six weeks before Infinity War was released; he kept those plans secret until the official announcement later in 2018.
- #011
Kate Herron was announced as director and executive producer of Loki in August 2019.
- #012
Loki's executive producers include Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard and Tom Hiddleston, alongside Waldron and Herron, with Wright serving as co-executive producer.
- #013
The first season of Loki consists of six episodes running 40 to 50 minutes each.
- #015
According to Wright, Loki was considered "open-ended" and no third season had been planned as of the release of the second season in October 2023.
- #016
Wright believed more stories remained to be told with the Loki character, both within the world created for the series and in the wider MCU.
- #017
Wright hoped that by the end of Loki's second season the character would be in a certain emotional place that would allow him to rejoin the larger MCU and meet Thor.
- #018
Wright hoped other MCU properties would use the TVA, describing it as a potentially exciting connective tool for storytelling; the TVA appears in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
- #019
Loki begins after the events of Avengers: Endgame, in which Loki steals the Tesseract during the 2012 events of The Avengers and creates an alternate timeline separate from the main MCU films.
- #023
Kevin Feige said in November 2019 that Loki would connect to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but by May 2021 he would not reconfirm that link or any other MCU tie-in, while saying the series would lay groundwork for the MCU's future.
- #024
Michael Waldron said Loki, like other MCU titles, was intended to have wide-reaching ramifications across the franchise.
- #026
Contains a major spoiler — show
Marvel Studios had not initially planned for the Multiverse Saga to center on Kang, but changed course after seeing Jonathan Majors' performance in the Loki episode and the dailies from Quantumania; Waldron felt introducing Majors made sense because Kang is a time-traveling, multiversal adversary seen as the next big cross-movie villain.
- #040
Production on Loki's first season was halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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