MARVEL FANS MAY not have to wait as long to see Loki Season 2 as they’d anticipated. The series finished its initial run in the summer of 2021 with the announcement that it would be back for another round of multiversal adventures, making it Marvel’s first Disney+ project to be renewed for a second season. But in the months since it was revealed, Marvel fans have gotten no word regarding Loki Season 2.
As a result, many Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) fans now feel that the Tom Hiddleston-led series will have to wait much longer than originally anticipated. However, a fresh production report reveals that may not be the case.
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THE GOD OF MISCHIEF’S RETURN
Season 2 of Loki will begin filming this summer, according to a recent rumor from Backstage, a website dedicated to assisting artists to get work in cinema and television. The source also said that production will take place at Pinewood Studios in the UK (the first season of Loki was filmed at Pinewood’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia).
The article did not offer any fresh casting or plot specifics, and it is still unclear who will succeed Kate Herron as director of Loki Season 1. That said, the fact that Season 2 will begin filming in just a few months suggests that development is much further advanced than Marvel fans imagined.
REPAIRING THE MULTIVERSE
After wrapping up production in December of 2020, Loki Season 1 will air in June of 2021. There’s no way of predicting how long it will take to film Season 2 because the show’s Season 1 filming schedule was severely disrupted by health precautions.
That said, around six months occurred between the finish of filming on the show’s first season and its release on Disney+. Because of this, Loki Season 2 will most likely premiere in early 2023, if not in the summer of that year.
On a storyline level, this update signals Marvel may begin addressing the multiversal repercussions of the Loki Season 1 finale. The events of the Disney+ series were disregarded by every other Marvel title in 2021, but the series can’t return until its twists (and surprise villain) have been handled by another MCU title.
The events of Loki Season 1 will likely be referenced in either Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness or Thor: Love and Thunder.
THE INVERSE ANALYSIS
It’s not clear how Marvel plans on expanding the multiversal narrative that was established in Loki Season 1. It was projected that Spider-Man: No Way Home would tie to the Disney+ series in some way, but that didn’t materialize. As a result, it’s now up to films like Multiverse of Madness and Love and Thunder to perhaps give MCU fans the Loki Season 1 links they’ve been waiting to see.
Fortunately, it seems likely that Multiverse of Madness will explain enough for Loki to return without seeming like it exists in a vacuum. A summer 2023 premiere date for Loki Season 2 would also put it in the same release window as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is currently planned to enter theatres in July 2023.
Quantumania is planning to star Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), the same MCU villain that Loki Season 1 introduced, so it would certainly make sense for the Disney+ show’s second season to launch in parallel with the Ant-Man sequel.
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Loki Season 2 Tweets
The moment you’ve waited for has arrived 🕰 The finale of Marvel Studios’ #Loki and all episodes of the Original Series are now streaming on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/Lc4Xyxs4oP
— Loki (@LokiOfficial) July 14, 2021