According to Loki director Kate Herron, the mysterious spaceship from the Season 1 finale has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before.
"So I would say that, for the spaceship, it was a fun Marvel nod," Herron said in an interview with CinemaBlend. "We had an homage to Contact, but I was like, 'Okay, how can we get this a bit more MCU flavor?' So it was kind of picking some... I would say if people look at the ship, they will recognize it. It's been in a few things."
The spaceship appears one minute and 52 seconds into the opening of the Season 1 finale of Loki, "For All Time. Always." Fan theories suggest that the spaceship may belong to the Fantastic Four, or somehow be linked to the upcoming Secret Invasion Disney+ series, but nothing has been confirmed (or denied) by Marvel.
Herron also explained that finale's opening, which featured two black holes sitting next to each other, was also an homage to 1997's Contact starring Jodie Foster. "And the black holes came out of... I was working with the storyboard artist, Darrin [Denlinger], and I think for us, it was just a case of 'The Contact shot's really cool.' And like, I think it was initially Eric [Martin] had written the idea that we moved through space to the end of time, which I thought was awesome," Herron said. "And then me and Darrin, we were like, 'Okay, well, let's play with time within this actual sequence, and how do we do that?' And I think that's what the two black holes came from."
The idea of branching, alternate timelines was briefly introduced to the MCU in Avengers: Endgame, but since Loki is the series that breaks the multiverse, the show's creative team was tasked with expanding much further on the concept. In terms of "playing with time," head writer Michael Waldron recently explained that in order to make alternate timelines, variants and time travel make sense, they had to take a philosophical approach to the concept of time.
"The best I can explain it is our approach with time travel was the philosophy basically that time is always happening," Waldron said. "So there are infinite instances of time always occurring at once."
Fans can catch a glimpse of the fast-moving spaceship and the shattering of the multiverse in the Loki Season 1 finale. All six episodes of Season 1 are currently available to stream on Disney+.
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Source: CinemaBlend
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