LOKI Series Creators Wanted to Do "Something Crazier" Than WANDAVISION and "Have Wide-Reaching Ramifications Across the MCU"
While we wait for the upcoming Marvel series Loki to drop on Disney+, the team behind the creation of the series discuss what they were looking to do with it. One of their goals was to do something crazier than what WandaVision did.
During an interview with Total Film/GamesRadar, Loki lead writer Michael Waldron explained:
"It is a big crack of the bat, a big swing. Our writers’ room was next to WandaVision’s. And you’re like, ‘That show looks so fucking good. We’ve got to do something crazier! We’ve got to step on the gas, because we know that what they’re doing is so cool.’ We tried to take chances every step of the way."
It’s always fun to see Marvel take chances and try new and unconventional things, judging from what I’ve seen in the trailers for Loki, there’s a lot of that in this series. It looks wild! Series star Tom Hiddleston said:
"There’s a propulsive momentum to [the show], which is about trying to find out more information. There’s a man-on-the-run quality to Loki, and he is caught in a complex new labyrinth, and is trying to find his way around without exposing himself to vulnerability or exploitation.”
The series also will introduce the Time Variance Authority who deal with fractures in the timeline, and apparently, Loki created a lot of problems with that timeline. So, Owen Wilson’s character, Mobius, recruits Loki to help fix his mistakes. In regards to the character Mobius, Wilson said:
"Mobius is a detective in the TVA. The way Mobius fits into the story is that he’s a little bit like Nick Nolte getting Eddie Murphy out of jail in 48 Hrs. to help him investigate. Working with him, of course, is a little bit of a chess match to gain his trust, and Loki seeing how far he can go with Mobius. And who’s manipulating whom? And whose purposes ultimately are going to be served?"
One of the things that a lot of fans are interested in seeing is how the events of Loki will affect the rest of the MCU. We know that the film will tie into Doctor Strange in The Multiverse Madness, we just don’t know to what extent that it will be. Waldron, the writer of Loki, was also brought in to write the Doctor Strange sequel and he confirmed that Loki will have wide-reaching ramifications across the MCU":
"That would just be crazy conjecture. All of these stories, in their own way, are interconnected, and have ramifications. I think that certainly our aim with the Loki series was for it to have wide-reaching ramifications across the MCU moving forward. So, you know, was I having to clean up some of the messes that I made [with Loki]? Maybe so."
I’m excited to see what these ramifications in the MCU will be. As for the future of Loki beyond the series, when asked if there will be a Season 2 or a follow-up, Hiddleston said:
"At this point, I have learned that for me to have any expectations is futile and a fool’s errand. Having said goodbye to the character once, twice, three times, I do not know what the future holds. But I’m excited to find out. I think we could never have seen 10 years ahead.
"However, that would be to underestimate the intelligence of Kevin Feige! Maybe he did see into the future, and he predicted all this, and, in fact, he works for the TVA, and reality is unfolding as it should, and we’re all just along for the ride..."
Loki launches on Disney+ on June 9th.
