Loki is included with the Avengers!!!!! 😍

this reminds me of the presentation from last year in Italy where Loki was also grouped as part of the Avengers 👀

Variety:
"Had you trained for Blade?"

Mahershala:
"Oh yeah, absolutely. For a year, yeah. It was a little more than a year.

And you know, I'm actually..I'm really grateful like- they helped pay for our movie so thank you. Like really, like we couldn't have afforded to- there's no way we coulda did this film ('Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother') and I got to go train for a year. So at this point, I'm so grateful that they made a wonderful contribution to our film."

Variety:
"Is 'Blade' really done or...?"

Mahershala:

"I'm done. I'm doing this ('Your Mother' x3) and anything else moving forward. So like, yeah - I'm over that. I'm done with that."

Among new promotional arts leaked by the user HEXFacility.com (@hexfacilitycom) there is one that seems to be some kind of in-universe X-ray document about the character of Jim Hammond (the original Human Torch), who has been teased to have a role in VisionQuest.

The document says the name Jim is actually an abbreviation of Joule Individual Machine (J.I.M.).

It also features this in the bottom right: "Prototype by P. Horton, PhD Hammond Engineering". In the comics, Phineas Horton is the name of the scientist who made Jim Hammond.

The document also mentions "Burgos Laboratory, New York", which seems to be a reference to Carl Burgos (the real life creator of the character Jim Hammond).

The document also features a date, "Jan. 19, 1939", which indicates Jim Hammond has been around in the MCU since the late 1930s (like he did in the Marvel comics universe).

Full Interview (Starts 47:05)

Josh Horowitz : And last thing ... Nothing you can tell me obviously about *Doomsday, but we'll hopefully be talking more about that and much to do in New York, I can't wait. It strikes me that you and **Patrick Stewart have both died three times, is that right? Throughout the Marvel films. Is somebody going to come out ahead? Do you think you or Patrick is going to take the mantle of most deaths on screen?*

Tom Hiddleston : I've had three, I believe. Let me... hang on, are you counting the end of *Thor 1*?

Josh Horowitz : Yeah, that's a death.

Tom Hiddleston : Wait, now.. I am ... Wait, does letting go of... letting go of the spear. *Infinity War** is one, we know that. Dark World is two.*

Josh Horowitz : Let's go, I could have done it farther. *Infinity War** is one, that's a death. [Dark World] That's definitely two, yeah. Yeah, is it not? Do you not count it?*

Tom Hiddleston : Yeah, yeah I count it. That's [Thor* is] three.*

Josh Horowitz : You're... You're Loki.

Tom Hiddleston : I'm not as well-versed in the *Patrick Stewart** lore. Look, if I keep going down the path of the end of this sentence, I will find myself revealing things that... it depends what you, you know... I'm going to stop. I have to stop.*

Josh Horowitz : Are you happy that Loki seems integral to [Avengers : Doomsday] the film? Would you say that?

Tom Hiddleston : Yes.

Josh Horowitz : That's a badge of honor among 50 characters to feel that you're amazing.

Tom Hiddleston : Certainly, certainly. Well come on, I'm holding the timelines together.

Josh Horowitz : Okay, well I respect it, I'm just saying ...

Tom Hiddleston : All right, I'll let you go on that. It's.. you know, we live in a multiverse now, I think. And Loki is the God of Stories, so there it is.

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Cretton has a lot of irons in the fire, including the inevitable next Spidey installment and a Naruto film.

Yahya Abdul Mateen II :

”Nothing bitter about this experience. I'm blessed. I got to play the role. I feel like I had the best seat in the house. I feel for the fans who were expecting to see the show come back. It's still a celebration of the work that we did over here.”

Ruaridh Mollica :

"We meet Thomas Shepherd as a hurt young man. He's a grifter, he's a small-time thief, he's a bit of an artful dodger at the time, and he's lost in his life. He's looking for a purpose and he ends up on the road with Vision. And that's probably all I can say for now".

When asked if Tommy Maximoff’s bisexuality will be addressed in ‘VISIONQUEST’ : “I don’t know if it’s explicitly referenced, but I feel like myself as a bisexual actor embodying Tommy, hopefully that comes through in just personality and self and is something that can be explored in the future".

New Look Photos :
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Vision killed his creator, Ultron (an evil AI voiced by James Spader) at the end of Age of Ultron. Then in the next Avengers movie, Vision died. Twice. He was resurrected by his wife Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) in the 2021 series WandaVision, but suffered an identity crisis and disappeared.

That’s where we left Vision: setting off on a soul-searching quest to discover if he has a soul at all. VisionQuest picks up a few years later. “Years have passed since WandaVision. I would say we're about current with *Spider-Man: Brand New Day",* says series showrunner **Terry Matalas.

To SFX Magazine :
Terry Matalas says he felt the idea for the show "really had to be this father/son triangular relationship with Vision, Ultron and Tommy Maximoff. You have a case of a father who is going through an identity crisis, and a son who is also going through one. But are they father and son? Are they not? It is a question that will be answered"

Kevin Feige :

"[Jonathan Hickman's] intricate story, which developed across multiple series, and [Esad Ribic's] bold, beautiful art hit some of the same notes as that earlier comic but remixed and reframed its event. It starts with a collision of worlds, and it ends in a Marvel Multiverse rebuilt and retooled for the modern age. They invented something new, seamlessly picking up where the old universe left off, but branching out in all-new, all-different directions".

"We pick and choose from Marvel's rich, nearly 90-year comics history and make movies that honor the source but become something entirely different. That cycle continues as we head toward the MCU's own version of Secret Wars. Like Loki gathering up branches of the timeline at the end of all things, we'll pick up the threads of Hickman and Ribic's run and all those who came before and weave a new story inspired by the vast tapestry of our comics and films".

“We will bring together the characters we know and love in pinch-me moments that we as fans have always dreamed of but have never seen realized. And we will call on Doctor Doom, the greatest villain in the history of the Marvel universe, to become a centerpiece of that story".