Marvel Studios has produced eight live-action series so far with only one, “Loki,” scoring a second season.
It helps that the first season remains the most successful of the Marvel Studios series in terms of viewership and the second most successful in terms of critical reviews (beaten only by “Ms. Marvel”).
Executive producer Kevin Wright confirms in a new interview with Variety that talk of a second season began whilst in the middle of production of the first.
It’s during that interview he made a surprise reveal. Asked if actor Jonathan Majors’ arrest for assault in March resulted in any changes to the show, Wright said:
“No. This is maybe – not maybe = this is the first Marvel series to never have any additional photography. The story that is on screen is the story we set out to make. We went out there with a very specific idea of what we wanted this to be, and we found a way to tell it in that production period. It’s very much what’s on screen on Disney+.”
Pressed further as to if there was any discussion about making changes to the show due to the uncertainty surrounding Majors, he says:
“No. And that mainly came from — I know as much as you do at the moment. It felt hasty to do anything without knowing how all of this plays out.”
The outlet indicates 1880s Chicago, 1970s London and 1980s U.S. Midwest are the three key locales seen across the first four of the six-episode run, but there are a bunch more in the last two episodes.
Wright adds he hopes the TVA could serve as an “exciting connective tool for all of this storytelling” in future Marvel projects. As for the prospects of a third season, he says:
“I think it’s open-ended. We certainly did not develop this season going, ‘We have to tee up Season 3’ – in the way that we did with Season 1, where there was a very specific, ‘Hey, we’re coming back’. But I also think that where this show goes, there certainly can be many, many, many more stories told with Loki in the ‘Loki’ world, and in other worlds connected to Loki, the character.”
The new season of “Loki” is set to premiere this Thursday on the Disney+ service.
