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The wait for Loki‘s small-screen debut just got a little shorter. Originally slated to premiere Friday, June 11, the Marvel Studios series will now drop on Wednesday, June 9, with subsequent episodes also releasing on that day each week.
Series star Tom Hiddleston broke the news himself in the video embedded above, teasing, “Wednesdays are the new Fridays.” (Disney+’s previous Marvel series, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, both unspooled new episodes on Fridays.)
Hiddleston will reprise his MCU role as the titular God of Mischief in the series, which reveals what became of Loki after he snatched the Tesseract and disappeared during Avengers: Endgame. As teased in a previous trailer, Loki is transported to the bureaucratic Time Variance Authority — which protects “the proper flow of time” — where he learns that his interference with the Tesseract broke reality.
Loki‘s cast also includes Owen Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums) as Mobius M. Mobius, Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show), Sophia Di Martino (the U.K.’s Casualty), Wunmi Mosaku (Lovecraft Country) and Richard E. Grant (Downton Abbey).
Though Loki will be the third scripted Marvel Studios series to drop on Disney+, the streamer has several more Marvel projects in the works, including Ms. Marvel (starring newcomer Iman Vellani), Hawkeye (in which Jeremy Renner will return as his MCU arrow-slinger), She-Hulk (led by Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany) and Moon Knight (with Star Wars‘ Oscar Isaac in the title role).
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But why?
I think because Star Wars: The Bad Batch is airing on fridays starting this week and that airs until August
I’m guessing it has more to do with preventing an episode of Loki and Black Widow from coming out on the same day (July 9th). If it had to do with Marvel and Star Wars overlapping, they probably wouldn’t have scheduled things that way in the first place, whereas Black Window moving into Loki’s air time was a more recent decision.
I see what your saying but I don’t get why that would matter. Maybe it’s just me but like Loki and BW will be on Disney+ for basically ever so if they dont really tie into each other it shouldn’t matter if they were released on the same day. IMO anyway.
But then, why would it matter that Loki and The Bad Batch are released on the same day, as the person I responded to theorized? Both Loki and The Bad Batch will be on Disney+ basically forever.
To me, it seems like it all comes down to that launch day streaming. If Loki comes out the same day as Black Widow, some people may choose to simply stream that first (as there is no additional cost) instead of paying for Black Widow. Which may undercut Disney’s ability to tout some highly impressive first day/weekend Premiere Access streaming figure (because you know Black Widow is going to be the biggest Premiere Access release thus far). Plus, it spreads the discussion about the two properties out across the week, instead of clashing discussions on the same day.
Does any of that matter in the long run? Almost certainly not. Disney wins regardless. But it may be just enough reason for them to decide to split the two up.
As I think about it more, it might also be for the theaters. Since Black Widow will be a hybrid release. Remove one possible conflict for the people who are willing and able to go see the movie in theaters on opening night. It’s the same thing Disney did with one of the episodes of The Mandalorian Season 1. Under the normal schedule, that episode would have released on the same day as Episode IX in theaters. But they moved it to the Wednesday of that week so the two didn’t conflict. Only in that case, they only moved the episode instead of the whole season.
(Bleep) Star Wars! Give me MCU instead!
Disney are nothing but idiots. Two whole days it’s moved up? That’s an insult. It would have been noteworthy if Disney had moved up a few weeks.
Settle down mate! x
I could’ve sworn they were going to surprise us with a “mischievous” early release on May 28 so that it wouldn’t overlap with Black Widow. Alas.
Well, this move also prevents an overlap. The week of 5th (of July) will be Loki on Wednesday and Black Widow on Friday
It’s more that there would be ANY overlap. It’s weird to me that BW would premiere 5 days before the Loki finale. Why not just move it all up so that they’re fully separated as discrete Marvel chapters?
Great news!!
Now, if only they’d move up the release to MAY 9th. It would make a nice Mother’s Day gift.
Makes sense that Loki is doing some time traveling lol
Because Wednesday is named for the Norse God Oden?
Odin😬
Working on Thursday with no sleep is going to be harder than working on Friday was…
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Why don’t they give us a real surprise and release it at midnight Eastern time rather than Pacific? :-D
This show cannot come fast enough. Tom Huddleston had quickly become my favorite MCU character. He did an awesome job as Loki and I am counting the days.
While I’m glad to see Loki early, I hate Wednesday release. But that’s for perfectly selfish reasons – My day off is usually Friday so can get up at 3am to check out the latest episode. Now I have to wait until after 6, which means more risks of seeing spoilers ☹️
I don’t care why. My favourite Norse god long before Disney bought Marvel and these movies were even dreamed of. See [read] Mythology by Edith Hamilton, or D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths, or Thomas ‘Bulfinch’s Mythology ‘ …