…will announce a Loki movie?
It seems a natural. The actor is a breakout star. I suspect he helped make Thor 2 the hit that it was. It will help mix up a “More of the Same” feeling they are in danger of becoming. Crazy idea?
I’d go to see a Loki movie. There are some other Asgardian characters it would be fun to see him interact with–Hela leaps to mind.
Loki’s star is definitely rising. Marvel has recently announced a new Loki-Agent Of Asgard comic series.
I would most certainly go. My fangirl side is drooling. (As a note, Free Loki has a petition drive going on Change.org, they’re up to 43 grand at the moment.)
However - some critical thoughts:
Positive - Loki is a complicated character, and a trickster. I think that makes it very possible to have an “antihero” movie with him as the lead.
Negative - Marvel hasn’t done any “villain” movies (although Spiderman is apparently breaking that ground as we speak) and might not want to go that route, despite the popularity of Loki individually.
Positive - All of the people involved; the actor, the director of Thor 2, and the overall Marvel showrunner, have commented on the record that they’d LIKE to do it, they just don’t know how it would work out.
Negative - a good lot of the Loki chemistry is actually Loki & Thor chemistry - they’d need Hemsworth to be willing to play second fiddle (don’t think that’s a problem - the guys apparently love each other like brothers IRL also) BUT it means whatever plot they dig up has to preserve Thor as the good character he is being established as, and not muck up the cinematic Marvel U, which could mean lower or more obscure stakes - making it less powerful a film (note how little attention poor Eccleston is getting for Malekith as a great example of that problem.)
Positive - MANY screaming fangirls.
Negative - Rising star (read busy and courted) actor - possibly hard to get a good schedule rolling.
I don’t know about a Loki movie, but I would be all over a movie that featured Thor and Loki interacting much more than they did in either of the other two movies. My favorite part of Thor 2 by far was the scenes where they worked together to avenge their mother. They have great chemistry. Just find a way for them to be forced to work together for the entire movie, and you have a hit.
Loki and Iron Man/Tony Stark would be fun too, if they could figure out a way to do it. 
That grew out of a very well-received run by Kieron Gillen in Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers. The origin is no doubt the popularity of Hiddleston’s Loki, but Marvel really just let a good writer tell a good story with the character and then kept going with it.
I think a Loki movie isn’t going to happen, but Loki is assuredly going to be a mainstay of any Thor movie.
Loki… Loki old man…
There’s no way to do a good job with it. Antiheroes only work as leads in contexts where there are no heroes, and villains never work at all on their own.
Meh. Howzabout a Sif/Enchantress movie? And we definitely need some Beta Ray Bill action…
Depends on how you define “antihero.” Snake Plissken in the same context of Superman would be a bit hard to take, but Deadpool’s been holding his own in the Marvelverse for a while now.
I could see a Loki movie working, but it would have to be careful not to ignore the terrible things he’s done.
Chix do dig the bad boys . . .
Deadpool might be in the Marvelverse, but he’s still not in the same context as, say, the Avengers. He moves in completely different circles than them. Loki, though, is known primarily as an associate of Thor, so if Loki’s involved and Thor isn’t, you have to ask why not, and if Thor is involved, then he’s the hero instead of Loki.
Interesting. I did not know “Thor” was an alternate spelling for “Loki”.
They could cast Baldur as a Thor stand-in for the straightman for Loki to play off of. Horseface Bill isn’t going to cut it. Hell, get the other Hemsworth to play Baldur.
I would like to see a movie around the myth where, to save the Asgardians’ bacon Loki distracts a workman building a wall around Asgard by distracting his horse, which leads to Sleipner some months down the road. It lets Loki be the hero in that particular case while exercising his shady, trickster side but I just don’t think that one will work in the Marvelverse.
Basically, you can do a Loki movie but it has to be a plot where some shady underhanded dealing is required to solve the problem.
The Norwegian language holds many mysteries.
Thing is, going by movie continuity at least Loki is not really a villain per se, or at least he’s a thoroughly justified one - namely, Odin apparently really *did *have him pegged as his official successor after Thor got the boot. From his point of view, a bunch of Asgardians not recognizing his legitimate rule are traitors and outlaws (which, in the original Viking understanding of the word, means “you can do whatever you jolly well please with them, without any consequences”).
The Chitauri thing might possibly have been a little bit sorta villain-ish if you squint right, admittedly. But it could also be a long con that went All According To Plan. That’s the trouble with tricksters, they’re sort of like Creationists except theirs is the Plan Of The Gaps 
… so they give each other purple nurples and sabotage each others’ relationships “all in good fun” ? 
Hey, he’s on-board with joining the X-Men if they’d just give him a call (and Jean Grey’s old uniform) !
Is that established? Seems like he took the throne while Odin was napping and since no one else knew he was a Frost Giant, they didn’t protest. I can’t imagine Odin would let Loki take the throne without the people of Asgard knowing what they were getting, in light of his lectures to Thor about how rulers serve the people.
I also doubt he counted Thor out as his heir, since he sent him Mjolnir. And seeing as how Thor was only exiled a couple of days, no one outside the court likely knew he was gone. Odin basically just grounded him for a weekend.
I distincly recall reading a Cracked.com article that established it as deleted scene fact (also that in spite of his half-giant side Odin had always considered him his true son because he’s a big softie that way), but I can’t find it back right now. So pencil that in as a “definitely maybe”.
But even without the scene, it’s sort of implicit : the first heir has been exiled and furthermore been publicly deemed unfit to rule a garden shed by the king. That makes the backup heir the legitimate one in any Salic feudal legal system you can care to name :).
Besides, I mean, Thor might have learned a bit about humility and impulsivenes and stuff during his Midgardian ordeal, but he’s still waaaay too naive to be head of state. I say Odin’s reasons for his exile still stand.