Memo to Marvel-heads: You do not have to observe the Season 2 finale of Loki earlier than heading to the theater to see The Marvels. The final episode of the present’s sophomore 12 months drops on Disney+ on Thursday night time simply as Captain Marvel’s second not-so-solo adventure begins enjoying in multiplexes. Talking with Yahoo Leisure, Loki head author Eric Martin signifies that the occasions of the season finale will not essentially bleed over into Nia DaCosta’s function movie.
“There have been by no means actually conversations about having to sync up in a sure approach,” Martin says. “I feel we simply type of informed our story in the precise approach that issues type of sync up naturally. We have set one thing up that unfolds and will likely be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe going ahead.” (For the report, there’s one real-life connection between the present and the movie: Loki star Tom Hiddleston is engaged to Zawe Ashton, who performs the villain in The Marvels.)
Loki‘s second season has actually continued to emphasise the multiversal insanity that has shaped the backbone of the MCU’s present section. It is also supplied a distinguished showcase for Jonathan Majors’s Kang, who made his in-universe debut on the finish of the present’s first season, and was meant to be the first antagonist for the subsequent two Avengers films. (The actor’s real-life legal troubles reportedly have Marvel Studios contemplating other avenues for Kang’s future.)
Regardless of these bigger tie-ins with Marvel Continuity, Martin says that the Loki workforce has largely been capable of “dwell in our personal sandbox” when it comes to planning out title character’s Season 2 arc. That is additionally why he would not assume a possible Season 3 would want to exist below Marvel’s just-created “Marvel Spotlight” banner, which is meant to differentiate in-continuity tales from reveals and films that may be loved on their very own phrases. (The upcoming Hawkeye spin-off Echo would be the first entry within the Marvel Highlight line when it premieres on Disney+ on Jan. 10.)
“I feel we have been capable of pull the MCU in the direction of us, and likewise honored the place the MCU has been going,” Martin notes. “So we have had a good quantity of freedom. I have never actually given thought to the Highlight sequence, and I do not know what Marvel’s planning on doing with that. However I feel it is a cool thought!”
The author is equally sanguine concerning the reported shake-ups happening Marvel’s television arm, because the studio pivots to extra conventional methods of overseeing its numerous Disney+ sequence, from recruiting veteran showrunners to creating “present bibles” that preserve the storytelling on monitor. “We have had a very good expertise on Loki, and labored actually exhausting to make one thing lasting. I am unsure how all the pieces else [at the studio] works, however no matter must be carried out to make nice stuff is what I hope occurs.”
As of now, Loki’s future within the bigger MCU is unsure. Whereas it stays the one Marvel sequence to get a second season, Marvel hasn’t confirmed whether or not it’s going to be returning for a 3rd version. Martin says that Hiddleston might simply preserve enjoying the half if the chance arises. “He is been Loki for therefore lengthy that the character filters by way of his thoughts and his coronary heart,” says the author, including that Hiddleston’s “fingerprints” are everywhere in the approach sure key scenes unfolded all through the second season. “All our conversations are about the place Loki’s head and feelings are at and the place that is going to guide him.”
Whereas Martin clearly declines to handle the place Loki’s head and coronary heart lead him within the Season 2 finale, he does point out {that a} fashionable fan idea possible will not be made canon because the present wraps up. Newly minted Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan joined the forged this season as a dorky technician named OB, and some have predicted that he’ll in the end be revealed as a Kang variant.
“I have never heard that one,” Martin says, laughing. “That is nice. OB is my favourite new character and one in every of my favorites throughout the entire sequence. I’ve seen among the [fan theories], however I attempt to not get too into that. However I prefer to know that there is that engagement and that persons are speaking concerning the present. You see issues a sure approach, however you then ship it out into the world and folks begin studying various things into it. I like listening to what these issues are.”
Martin would additionally like it if Loki characters like OB and Sylvie — a fan favourite feminine variant of Loki, performed by Sophia Di Martino — discover their approach into different MCU initiatives past Loki. “I hope all people steals our characters! That is a extremely particular factor in being part of the MCU, seeing different creators go, ‘Oh wow, I like that character and wish to use them on this story.’ It is a terrific validation of the work we did to create our personal world.”
“However I additionally do not wish to let any of them go,” Martin provides with a smile. “I wish to preserve writing them perpetually.”
Loki is at present streaming on Disney+; The Marvels opens in theaters on Nov. 10.
