The excitement for Loki is now at an all-time high, and Marvel Studios has just dropped a fresh batch of stills from the series. These images feature moments primarily from the first two episodes - that are now confirmed to be 51 and 54 minutes - with the spotlight mostly on the Time Variance Authority.
Clearly, not even the God of Mischief is powerful enough to outmanoeuvre this mysterious organisation, and it looks like Loki will be left at their mercy. However, these images make it clear that it won't take the The Avengers villain long to somehow join their ranks as a "Variant."
After those glowing social media reactions, you'll want to check back here tomorrow at 9am PT when the review embargo lifts for our verdict and the Rotten Tomatoes score when it's revealed.
"We all really wanted the tone of the show to represent the best of Loki’s character," the Disney+ show's lead star, Tom Hiddleston, says in the production notes for the show. "Loki’s character has this extraordinary range. Loki can be fun, light-hearted and witty. He’s always got a good line: he’s the God of Mischief, after all. So, we wanted the show to be imbued with mischief, a sense of fun and a sense of momentum. But we also know that Loki has this very sensitive, damaged, broken heart with an enormous capacity to feel emotion on the biggest scale."
"And to go to some quite profound places that explore some of the deepest experiences of being alive that are about loneliness and sadness and anger and grief and loss," the actor continued. "We wanted the tone of the whole show to have all of it, to have that sense of fun, to have that sense of mischief. And to have that sense of emotional depth and emotional breadth that hopefully could be contained in this epic story, which starts from the things that people are familiar with."
In Loki, the imperious God of Mischief, who, after absconding with the Tesseract, is a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority) steps out of his brother’s shadow in a new series that takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame.
Tom Hiddleston returns as the title character, joined by Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant. Kate Herron directs Loki, and Michael Waldron is head writer. Recently, we learned the show will premiere on Disney+ on June 9th, 2021.