Richard E. Grant joins the cast of the Loki series on Disney+

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Richard E. Grant is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Discussing Film has reported that the STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER actor has signed on to join the cast of the Loki series for the Disney+ streaming service.

As this is Marvel we're talking about, there's no information on just who Richard E. Grant will be playing in Loki, but Variety notes that sources have told them that Grant will only be appearing in a single episode. Although this will be Grant's first appearance in the MCU, it won't be his first time appearing in a Marvel movie as he previously played the nefarious Dr. Zander Rice in James Mangold's LOGAN. Production on the six-episode series is currently underway with Michael Waldron writing and Kate Herron directing. Tom Hiddleston will naturally be reprising his role of Loki, but the series is also set to star Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Sopia Di Martino.

Last summer, Tom Hiddleston confirmed that the Loki we'll be following in the series will be the 2012 incarnation of the character, who hasn't yet been redeemed, with Hiddleston noting, "That's where he starts."

I feel like I know [Loki], I’ve been playing him for 10 years now, and that’s crazy to me. By the time it’s out, I’ll be 40, and when I was cast, I was 29, which is a great chunk of my life… but the point is that there’s a sense of "I know this character now, I feel the audience knows him." Playing him, and playing him truthfully, but presenting him with new challenges, which then have to change him in different ways, is the most exciting aspect of it. You have his specific gifts, his intelligence, his treachery, his mischief, his magic, and then seeing him come up against more formidable opponents the like of which he has never seen or known. I wish I could tell you what happens, but I can’t.

Loki is aiming for a spring 2021 release, but we won't have to wait that long for the first Disney+ Marvel series as The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, is expected to drop in August 2020, followed by WandaVision, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, in December 2020.