Loki director Kate Herron says she pitched some ideas that she initially thought might be “too weird” for Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ original series. On the contrary, however, Marvel boss Kevin Feige encouraged her to go even “weirder.”
During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Herron was asked what it was like to workshop ideas with Feige. “Something I always found was we would sometimes pitch something, and it would be at a good place, but he’d always be like, ‘Okay, that’s great, but push it further,'” she replied. “Sometimes I’d pitch stuff and be like, ‘This is too weird,’ and he’d say, ‘No, go weirder.'”
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Herron says that Feige “wants to tell the best story and I found it really helpful having his eye across everything and the fact that he does challenge everything.” She also spoke highly of Loki star Tom Hiddleston, saying that he “brings this amazing energy and this great A-game that causes everyone to rise to the occasion.”
Loki picks up after the time travel-centric events of the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, in which an alternate version of Loki (separate from the one killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War) creates a new timeline after successfully stealing the Tesseract back in 2012, thus drawing the ire of the Time Variance Authority. It is set to premiere in just a few days on Wednesday, June 9 as the third entry in Marvel Studios’ lineup of Disney+ original series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Loki will consist of six episodes, which are slated to arrive on Disney+ on a weekly basis.
Per an official synopsis for Loki,
Picking up immediately after Loki steals the Tesseract (again), he finds himself called before the Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space, forced to answer for his crimes against the timeline and given a choice: face deletion from reality or assist in catching an even greater threat.
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Lexus Renslayer, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15 and Sophia Di Martino, Richard E. Grant, Sasha Lane and Eugene Cordero in undisclosed roles. The series premieres June 9 on Disney+.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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