In April it was reported that Secret Invasion will premiere on June 21 on Disney. The platform had taken a break with superheroes, taking into account that since the farewell of She-Hulk: She-Hulk lawyer in October, it had not broadcast an episode of any Marvel series. But this drought of superheroic content will not be repeated: the second season of Loki will arrive on October 6 and the first of Echo will do so on November 29.
The announcement was made by the head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, at an event to present the upcoming season to advertisers and the media. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) focuses on the trouble that the God of Deception gets into in the Temporal Variation Authority and which served to introduce the villain Kang (Jonathan Majors) who would also appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp : Quantumania.
The cast is completed once again by Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant and it will air weekly as it did in its first season. Where there are changes is behind the scenes: the creator Michael Waldron will continue as executive producer of Loki but will leave the role of showrunner, which from now on will be held by Eric Martin, who already worked as a writer on the first season and who has experience in series Like Rick and Morty and Heels.
Instead, Echo will not be broadcast on a weekly basis. In a first for a Marvel Cinematic Universe television production, its six-episode first season will launch all at once. Echo is Maya Lopez, played by Alaqua Cox, who made an appearance in Hawkeye and has the ability to mimic the fighting skills of any opponent that gets ahead of her.
One of Echo’s draws has to do with the profile of its team: Alaqua Cox was born deaf and uses a prosthetic leg, and is Native American like the writing team, directors, and part of the cast.
Those nostalgic for Netflix’s Daredevil will also be happy: Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise the role of Kingpin as he already did in the Hawkeye miniseries and Charlie Cox will be part of the cast as the masked hero, waiting to premiere his own series, Daredevil: Born again, and after having scored a supporting role in She-Hulk.
The release date of the rest of the Marvel series in production such as Ironheart, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, the second season of What if…? and Daredevil: Born Again.