Loki writer Michael Waldron revealed in a new interview that the Disney+ series will answer a number of questions about the rewritten timeline presented in Avengers: Endgame.
"It's like Endgame laid the foundation for what time travel is in the MCU," Waldron told Collider when asked about how the newest Marvel series will tackle time travel rules. He added, "It was our job to build that out further and to identify, 'All right, how does this work? How does it look? Is time travel magic? Is it scientific? Is it engineered, is it cast?'"
Waldron added that it was vital for the Loki writing team to both ask and define time travel questions as they wrote each episode, stating, "I think that what's fun about the [Time Variance Authority] is it takes something remarkable, like time travel, and really packages it in a very soulless, sort of bureaucratic way. That's what was exciting to me, as a writer, was to take something so magical and just make it utterly soulless."
Waldron touched on how complicated it was to keep track of the different Marvel timelines, explaining, "All over our writer's room, our whiteboards were just covered in timelines. And it's just, 'No, time travel works this way, 'No, time travel works that way.' That was the great challenge of our show, it was because the [TVA] is an organization that literally manages and polices all of time, we had to define what time is to them and what time is in the MCU. How does it move? What is time travel? How does it operate?"
The Loki writers' room had to define what a broken time law was within the world of Loki and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. He concluded, "We got six episodes. Folks are going to have a week in between each one of these things to pick them apart. I kept telling our writers, 'Look, guys, they're going to hold our feet to the fire. We've got to make this as airtight as we possibly can, so it can withstand a week of scrutiny every episode.'"
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. Episode 1 of Loki is available now on Disney+.
Source: Collider