The start date for filming on the second season of Loki, which stars a variant of Tom Hiddleston's titular trickster god first introduced in Avengers: Endgame, has officially been revealed.
The Film & Television Industry Alliance's productionlist.com recently updated its Loki Season 2 production page to include its starting shoot day and location. Filming for Season 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will start on June 6 at Pinewood Studios in London, United Kingdom. It's currently unknown how long production will last on Season 2, but Season 1 took a little over four months to film back in 2020.
The start date lines up with what Hiddleston previously revealed in April about filming Season 2. "We're in it already. I mean, we're not filming, but we're in prep, but we start in like six weeks or something," the actor said. "So we're in full steam ahead in terms of a script and story, and it's really exciting. Yeah, I can't say too much, but lots of questions to be answered."
The Season 1 finale featured a cliffhanger ending that found Loki in a different version of the Time Variance Authority after Sylvie killed He Who Remains and caused the Multiverse to be unleashed. However, Michael Waldron, head writer for Loki's first season, revealed he had originally written a very different season finale. "I really conceived and wrote a lot of the show kind of operating as though it would just be one season," Waldron said in April. "It became clear, even as we were making it and still kind of refining Episode 6, that it felt like, 'Hey, this cast, this world is great, and wow, there's a lot more gas left in the tank.' And yeah, there is certainly more story to tell here." The writer continued, "And so that's when we sort of shifted some things. [...] There's always a different ending. But there was the original one season-ending, which I guess is just for me."
Waldron was originally set to return as head writer for Season 2, but he announced in May that Season 1 co-writer Eric Martin would succeed him in the role. "We've hired a couple of great directors. [Justin] Benson and [Aaron] Moorhead are brilliant. And Eric Martin has taken over as head writer for Season 2," Waldron disclosed. "So the creative team is fantastic. As Tom [Hiddleston] once said, there's plenty more mischief to come."
No plot details have been teased regarding where Season 2 might take Loki and the rest of the show's characters, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently confirmed that Loki's Season 1 ending directly caused the events seen in two of their recent films. "Loki and Sylvie did something at the end of that series that sort of allowed all of this to be possible," Feige divulged. "He Who Remains is gone, and that allowed a spell to go wrong in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which leads to the entire multiverse going quite mad in [Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness]." Fans will have to wait and see whether Season 2 of Loki delves into the multiversal shenanigans that took place in the Spider-Man and Doctor Strange sequels.
In addition to Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino are expected to reprise their Season 1 roles in the upcoming season. The first season of Loki is available to stream on Disney+.
Source: productionlist.com