James R | On 18, Feb 2022

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have stepped into the directing chair for Loki Season 2.

The series, developed by head writer Michael Waldron with Kate Herron (Sex Education), sees Tom Hiddleston reprise his role as the God of Mischief. After absconding with the Tesseract during Avengers: Endgame, he finds himself in Season 1 a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority). Led by Owen Wilson’s agent Mobius and Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Judge Renslayer, the TVA team recruit Loki to help restore the messed-up timeline to the way it should be.

The series was renewed for a surprise second season, making it the first of Marvel’s Disney+ series to get a renewal. Herron, though, swiftly confirmed that she would not return for Season 2.

Now, Marvel have found two equally exciting names to fill her shoes: Spring and The Endless helmers Moorhead and Benson, who have been hired to co-direct a “majority of the episodes”, reports Deadline.

Tom Hiddleston and Michael Waldron, who served as showrunner in Season 1, will executive produce Season 2, with Eric Martin writing all six episodes.

Moorhead and Benson, meanwhile, are no strangers to Marvel, having helmed a couple of episodes of Moon Knight. They have also directed episodes of such series as The Twilight Zone and Archive 81.

“A lot of stuff comes out in theatres that we’ve turned down,” Aaron told us in an interview for The Endless in 2018. “It feels cool because it’s like ‘Well that’s worse than if we did it, and it would’ve been bad if we’d done it!’ Except for a few occasions, when it’s better than what we would have done, because they understood it in a way where we saw something easy and boring, they saw something everyone’s gonna love, which we didn’t.”

“If you asked me to make Godzilla run around, I would not be able to do it,” he added. “We only want to make a movie that we can make 100% of the way. Like, Justin literally wrote me an email and said: Tell me all the stuff you’re good at. And I just wrote him a list and it was just ‘Here’s your toolkit, you can grab from this whenever you want.’”

 

Kate Herron will not return for Loki Season 2

17th July 2021

Director Kate Herron will not return for the second season of Loki.

The series, developed by head writer Michael Waldron with Herron, sees Tom Hiddleston reprise his role as the God of Mischief. After absconding with the Tesseract during Avengers: Endgame, he finds himself a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority). Led by Owen Wilson’s agent Mobius and Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Judge Renslayer, the TVA team recruit Loki to help restore the messed-up timeline to the way it should be.

“This thrilling, ambitious solo jaunt for Tom Hiddleston’s trickster is a timey-wimey joy,” we wrote in our review of the first season, particularly highlighting the series’ visual storytelling and world-building. But while Disney was quick to announce a second run of Loki, Herron has now revealed that she won’t be at the helm.

“I’m not returning,” she told Deadline. “I always planned to be just on for this, and to be honest, Season 2 wasn’t in the — that’s something that just came out, and I’m so excited. I’m really happy to watch it as a fan next season, but I just think I’m proud of what we did here and I’ve given it my all. I’m working on some other stuff yet to be announced.”

What’s she working on next? “I’m just focused on my own stuff at the moment,” she added. “I love Marvel and I’d love to work with them again, but my outing with Loki is what I’ve done with them.”

 

Loki renewed for Season 2

15th July 2021

Loki will return to Disney+ for Season 2, Marvel has officially announced.

Directed by Kate Herron, with Michael Waldron is head writer, the series sees Tom Hiddleston reprise his role as the God of Mischief. After absconding with the Tesseract during Avengers: Endgame, he finds himself a fish-out-of-water when he lands in a world of trouble with the bureaucratic TVA (Time Variance Authority). Led by Owen Wilson’s agent Mobius and Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Judge Renslayer, the TVA team recruit Loki to help restore the messed-up timeline to the way it should be.

“This thrilling, ambitious solo jaunt for Tom Hiddleston’s trickster is a timey-wimey joy,” we wrote in our review of the first season, which culminated in its sixth and final episode this week. Tucked away at the end of that finale credits was the reveal that Season 2 was officially on the way.

The news, which Marvel has now formally confirmed, makes Loki the first Marvel Disney+ series to be renewed for a second season, with WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier both kept as one-and-done TV outings.

“I am so grateful that we got to do Season 1, I still am not quite able to process that we get to have another go at this. I am so excited by the possibilities,” said Hiddleston. “We are already in discussions. Deep, deep, deep discussions. I can’t wait to get started.”

“I want to say thank you to the audience because without the audience, we wouldn’t be able to make a Season 2,” Hiddleston continued. “I hope Season 1 was full of surprises. And I think Season 2 will be full of even more.”

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