Kate Herron will serve as director on Marvel Studios’ six-episode, six-hour
Loki series headed to Disney+, Disney announced Friday during D23 Expo.
Herron served as director on
television mini-series
Five by Five and directed four episodes of
Netflix original series
Sex Education. This marks her first collaboration with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Concept art exhibited during a Disney+ presentation in April showed Loki wandering the streets of 1975 — as evidenced by a prominent billboard advertising summer blockbuster
Jaws — supporting early details that said the spinoff series will follow Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) troubled adopted
brother “throughout human history as unlikely influencer on historical events.”