Disney+, Disney’s streaming service to challenge Netflix and make Disney I.P. the pinnacle of pop culture, is moving full steam ahead. And one of their main avenues of content will be Marvel Studios. Now, the god of mischief, “Loki,” has a showrunner for his show.
THR reports that Marvel Studios has appointed comedy writer Michael Waldon as its point person and he will write the pilot, act as show creator and exec produce the series. Waldron is known as a writer on Dan Harmon‘s “HarmonQuest,” has produced “Good Game,” another Harmon related project and has worked on “Community” and “Ricky and Morty.” Clearly, he is part of the Harmon-verse, and “Loki” hiring a comedy guy should be a telling eye-opener. Maybe we should be expecting something more in the vein of “Thor: Ragnarok,” which sounds refreshing frankly.
Tom Hiddleston is expected to reprise his role as Asgard’s least favorite son, and while the character met his demise in last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” before Thanos’ reality-altering snap, Marvel has found a way around this by making the show a prequel. THR writes, “Sources say the show will follow Loki as the trickster and shapeshifter pops up throughout human history as an unlikely influencer on historical events” and doesn’t that sound a little “Rick And Morty”-ish?
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Marvel is working on several series that will debut on Disney+ including “The Vision and Scarlet Witch,” run by “Captain Marvel” writer Jac Schaeffer, and an untiled Falcon and Winter Soldier series lead by Malcolm Spellman (“Empire“) that will feature Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan.
None have shot yet and are still in development, but perhaps we’ll see the first of them in 2020. Writers rooms are probably forming soon.
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“We’re currently in the process of polishing up what it will be, the ideas, the story, and the pitch, but it’s definitely happening,” Hiddleston said in a recent U.K. Radio show. “Disney is launching a streaming service called Disney+, and I’m not exactly sure when that will be live,… but it’s really exciting to do this series about Loki, and I can’t say much, we all have to get through ‘Avengers: Endgame‘ first.”
Details on this Loki show quash rumors that the “Loki” series would feature a young god of mischief and only feature Hiddleston in voiceover. All of the Disney+ shows are expected to be limited series rather than TV shows that go on for several seasons, and given many of these actors schedules and inability to commit to an entire TV show, this move makes sense.
