Disney+ shifted the premiere dates of a number of Marvel reveals because of the ongoing Hollywood strikes. The affected collection embrace What If…?, Echo, X-Males ’97, and Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. Solely season two of Loki will maintain its scheduled launch date of October 6.
Deadline stories that though the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes delayed the premieres of many motion pictures and TV collection, the additional time offers Marvel an opportunity to shine its upcoming tasks. Current Marvel properties equivalent to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Secret Invasion underperformed and didn’t meet with as a lot enthusiasm as previous releases. Perhaps just a few extra weeks or months will assist Disney put out the most effective Marvel reveals doable.
Marvel Reveals are Staggering Releases As a result of Disney+ Has Fewer New Collection and Motion pictures
The continued strikes do, nonetheless, imply that Disney+ has fewer new releases within the pipeline. One in every of them, Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, is a WandaVision spin-off starring Kathryn Hahn (pictured above) within the titular witchy function. On WandaVision, Agatha is the nosy neighbor on the fictional sitcom throughout the present. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries regarded to premiere this winter however has moved to a fall 2024 debut.
Echo is a spin-off of Hawkeye and stars Maya Lopez because the deaf Native American superhero with the extraordinary functionality of completely mimicking one other’s actions. Echo had a deliberate November launch however will now drop in January 2024.
The animated collection X-Males ’97 serves as a revival of X-Males: The Animated Collection, which ran from 1997 to ’97. The brand new collection will premiere in early 2024 as an alternative of this autumn.
The second season of the animated collection What If…? will premiere over the vacations as an alternative of earlier this 12 months as initially deliberate. The collection options the voice of Jeffrey Wright because the Watcher, an alien who screens exercise within the multiverse.
Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston as Thor’s adopted brother and the god of mischief, is conserving its season-two premiere date of October 6. Like the primary season, the second comprises six episodes and is taken into account a part of Part 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The primary season concluded with the creation of a multiverse after the unique timeline splinters. The official Marvel synopsis reveals that season two options Loki “in a battle for the soul” of the Time Variance Authority as he groups up with Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) in multiverse-traversing seek for Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), the TVA clock mascot Miss Minutes (voiced by Tara Robust), and Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked).