Loki Season 2 will debut on Disney+ just over two years after Season 1. While the upcoming episodes will delve into new stories, executive producer Kevin Wright says the overall feel will be the same.
Speaking to ComicBook, Wright explained that the similarity between Season 1 and 2 is mainly due to the practical sets built for the production. "I think it is a rhythm of production," Wright said about how the first installment of Loki influenced the second. "These things, streaming shoots very fast. It shoots much quicker than our features do, and something that we did in Season 1 that was started as necessity but became this great building point for us was building sets, making the world."
Wright revealed that the sets for Loki were "360 builds" that the cast could go into. "They knew what the world they were getting into, and I think being able to do that, build a tangible world, you're getting it in camera, you're able to shoot fast," he continued. "I think that actors really love it, and you get great performances out of them, and it just became a thing of we wanted to prioritize the look of this show production design-wise, costume design, cinematography, and it's a thing that you do have to prioritize because these are craftsmen and artists, but they can only do so much, and if you're not giving them the time and the resources, they can't do it. So I think that was something we just knew people liked the world we were building, and it let us do it for Season 2."
Creating The 1883 World's Fair Set in Loki Season 2
The Lamentis set, the moon on the verge of apocalypse in 2077, is arguably the most prominent and audacious element of Loki Season 1. However, Season 2 presented an even bigger challenge for the production design team as they had to bring the 1883 World's Fair in Chicago to life. Wright contrasted the magnitude of the task with Lamentis, which appeared in Season 1, Episode 3. "I mean, we built a whole new floor, which is everything on OB's level and the temporal core, but I do think it's probably Episode 3," he explained. "I mean, trying to recreate the Chicago World's Fair, the 1893 World's Fair was maybe bigger than Lamentis. I think it was bigger than Lamentis."
In Loki Season 2, the Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief finds himself displaced in time due to the actions of Sylvie, his variant, who kills He Who Remains. This event shatters the Sacred Timeline, allowing Kang the Conqueror and his variants to unleash chaos across the multiverse. The Time Variance Authority remains unaware of the extent of Loki and Sylvie's actions that essentially pose a grave threat to the very existence of the multiverse.
Loki Season 2 premieres on Disney+ on Oct. 5
Source: ComicBook