LOKI Writer Breaks Down That Big Villain Reveal; Shares New BTS Photo And Confirms Season 2 HASN'T Been Shot

LOKI Writer Breaks Down That Big Villain Reveal; Shares New BTS Photo And Confirms Season 2 HASN'T Been Shot

Loki writer and producer Eric Martin has broken down that big villain reveal in the finale, sharing a new behind-the-scenes photo of [SPOILER] and a big update on how work on season two is progressing.

By JoshWilding - Jul 15, 2021 01:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Loki
Source: Twitter (@MrEricMartin)

The entire creative team behind Loki is amazing. However, if you're not following writer and producer Eric Martin on Twitter, you're missing out, especially as he's been breaking down each episode.

In his live commentary of "For All Time. Always.", Martin shared heaps of details about Kang the Conqueror's live-action debut, starting by saying that "Jonathan Majors absolutely exceeded expectations. Everything he did just had so much gravity to it. It was thrilling to watch him work. [It's] all talking, so we knew we needed someone with intense Charisma. [He] blew us all away."

As for the portrayal of He Who Remains, Martin explained that the villain "had to be odd, but bold and brash. Almost like a young tech CEO. As much a genius as they are [a] charlatan." 

"The biggest risk was having this entire epic lead to a single conversation," he said of the finale. "But we just didn't want to do the expected big battle at the end. And, again, our whole show is about conversations, so it felt like it was in the DNA. We didn't want to end with a typical 'big bad' either. He Who Remains is villainous, but the Loki and Sylvie [struggles] are internal."

Martin also shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Majors, noting that "Jonathan is so physical too. He was running all around the set (and all around it between takes)."
 

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Earlier today, speculation started running rampant that Marvel Studios might have somehow already shot the second season of Loki. It's a nice thought (just imagine it dropping on Disney+ completely out of the blue) but, as expected, that's not the case. Answering a question on Twitter during his live commentary, Martin confirmed that they've only just started working on the story.

Without a traditional television schedule to stick to, we're not expecting more Loki for at least a couple of years, and certainly not before 2023 after Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is released.
 

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TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 7/15/2021, 1:03 PM
Take your time brotha. They truly delivered a great series. Tom is a fantastic actor and you can really emotionally connect with Loki in this series. And I never thought I'd say that.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 7/15/2021, 1:05 PM
Can't wait to see what Waldron and Herron cook up. We need them to get a film together.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 7/15/2021, 1:11 PM
The storylines in Shang Chi and Eternals are minced meat compared to what floodgates this show has just opened up. Hope to be proven wrong though, especially with Shang Chi looking epic to me.

Suddenly can’t wait for Spidey 3 and am praying that it doesn’t end with Tom’s Spidey in a Sony-exclusive universe. Also expecting Captain Britain corps to be founded by Peggy in What If
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/15/2021, 2:09 PM
@JFerguson -
I was thinking about that too. While the whole of existence is thrown off kilter life just goes on in our little Sacred Timeline. Both of those stories seem to be self contained and not infected with this Multiverse business but we shall see.
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 7/15/2021, 5:42 PM
@JFerguson - Wouldn't it be weird that a multiversal defense corps is founded by a super soldier?
vegetaray
vegetaray - 7/15/2021, 6:28 PM
@Goldboink - No way to know for sure if those movies take place in the MCU “sacred” timeline honestly…Who’s to say they don’t happen in their own universe and get merged into the MCU timeline that we all know via the shenanigans that happened in Loki…Would make sense why the Eternals didn’t step up and help with any number of extinction level events on the earth, and the entire universe for that matter…Maybe the Shang Chi Mandarin didn’t show up in that Tony Stark movie because he didn’t exist in this universe…

I mean we all know this is how we’re going to get mutants and the Fantastic Four folded in to the universe we’ve been following right…
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/15/2021, 6:37 PM
@vegetaray -
I think we are going to wind up at the beginning again with a TVA maintaining a single timeline.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 7/15/2021, 6:40 PM
@Goldboink - Seems like business as usual for those characters. It's possible that their place in the universe does lead to something though. I theorize we could see Shang Chi on Val de Fontaine's team and the Eternals used to set up Galactus down the line.

Similarly, the Ant-Man and Captain Marvel franchises played the long game with how they factor into MCU, with Quantum Realm and Secret Invasion being set up respectively.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 7/15/2021, 6:43 PM
@Razorface1 - Not if we get the Guardians of the Multiverse led by Peggy as per what is rumored. Believe me, Im still hoping for the Merlyn lore from the comics but the MCU is wholly different.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/15/2021, 8:00 PM
@JFerguson -
Things in the MCU are branching for sure and getting very complicated. My fear is that they push it too far and wind up going in too many directions at once and leave a ton of loose ends. It will be fascinating if they wind up making a reformed Loki the guy who figures it out when they Endgame this particular chapter.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 7/15/2021, 8:01 PM
@JFerguson -
Oh, and I do think they do a good job in most of the origin movies giving these characters space to breathe before too much MCU involvement.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/16/2021, 8:57 AM
@JFerguson - with how badly they’ve butchered Spidey in the MCU I don’t know that it could get much worse
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 7/15/2021, 1:17 PM


(ps. Jonathan Majors has pretty eyes)
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 7/15/2021, 1:30 PM
@WakandanQueen - that motion and the fact he's wearing purple, it HAD to be an inspiration, right?
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 7/15/2021, 2:32 PM
@Waddles - Up until you said "Sylvie" I thought you were talking about Wonka.
JonC
JonC - 7/15/2021, 3:43 PM
@Waddles - like when Wonka looses it with Charlie...
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 7/15/2021, 1:29 PM
"[It's] all talking, so we knew we needed someone with intense Charisma"

this is the key factor that some people are (granted, understandably) missing: this is a "talky" finale, and one bullet-proof way to make dialogue-centric scenes, series or movies interesting in general is to have someone with a commanding presence showing off different shades of their personality. this Kang/Immortus or whatever you wanna call him is exactly that: he's misterious ("I've been called many names") but also playful and outspoken, he's energetic and theatrical almost but he is also tired (he spends most of the episode just sitting behind his desk), he believes in his mission of protecting reality but that also makes him literally erase entire existences like a thousand Thanos, he knows the timeline is f*cked without him or the TVA yet he lets Sylvie murder him out of some kind of twisted sense of amusement and almost pride like "I told you so, now you're all screwed" (the "I see you soon" line followed by one last blink to Sylvie).
and all of this in less than 30 minutes! and this is just A version of the character this guy is set to play. which makes me wonder, since he's been cast as Kang in Ant-Man 3 now we have to wonder if he's not just playing one version but several.
JonC
JonC - 7/15/2021, 3:42 PM
@Spidey91 - its like the narration in The Big Lebowski... you had to have Sam Elliot to draw you in...
DoubleD
DoubleD - 7/15/2021, 1:31 PM
Loki was great can't wait to see what Marvel Studios has plan for She-Hulk 10 Epic episodes.

TheLobster
TheLobster - 7/15/2021, 2:21 PM
@DoubleD - has that been confirmed? The 10 episodes?
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/15/2021, 1:37 PM
Loki is done,now give me a goddamn Hawkeye trailer.
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 7/15/2021, 1:39 PM
"had to be odd, but bold and brash. Almost like a young tech CEO. As much a genius as they are [a] charlatan."

Lol at this
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 7/15/2021, 1:41 PM
It is hilarious that we were all just sitting around with Loki and Sylvie watching Jonathan Majors act for like 38 minutes and were entertained the whole time
Fares
Fares - 7/15/2021, 1:49 PM
Focusing on the dialogue is the best thing they did. Not for a moment did I feel bored or wanted the conversation to end. Definitely a step up compared to the finales of FATWS and especially Wandavision.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 7/15/2021, 1:50 PM
I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here, but I was saying this back between IW and Endgame; With time travel already being used as a plot device (not a huge fan of the tactic) and with Kang going forward, how will this not further cheapen the stakes?

I think time travel should be used VERY sparingly and the rules need to be much more concrete then we got in Endgame for example. I might be nitpicking, but there has to be consistency and solid internal logic even in fantasy movies imo.
JonC
JonC - 7/15/2021, 3:46 PM
@Feralwookiee - things may get 'reset' but people still get hurt along the way... whatever happens in a timeline stays there, only new splinters of the original timeline have a chance to 'resolve' an issue. Its not like Sylvie or anyone hasn't gotten hurt and lost things (family, friends, their own life) even though time travel exists... the only way to come out happy in time travel is to be the guy in charge and then you end up like Kang with a million variants: some good, some bad and some in between.
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