Now that the second season of Loki has come to a close, fans are looking ahead to the future and speculating about the odds of Loki season 3 becoming a reality.
The second season of Loki comes to a close after another amazing six-episode run on November 9, and fans are already eager to know what is ahead next for our favorite villain turned hero. Season 2 was even more exciting and critically praised than the show’s first season, delivering one of the finest seasons of a Marvel Disney+ show we’ve seen yet!
With Loki season 2 ending on November 9, fans are looking ahead to what Marvel might have in store for Loki season 3. While unconfirmed, here’s all we know about a potential third season.
Loki hasn’t been renewed for season 3 (but also hasn’t been canceled)
If there is one thing that Marvel fans have come to expect, it’s that Marvel likes to keep its cards close to its chest and does not often reveal much about future projects before they’re ready to. Often, the biggest announcements about upcoming Marvel projects have come during major presentations at events such as D23, San Diego Comic-Con, and Disney+ Day. Thus far, Marvel has not announced plans for a third season of Loki and there is a good chance this could be it for the show.
Loki has been the only live-action Marvel show to return for a second season since the MCU launched on Disney+. While the show has been one of the most popular and successful franchises, Marvel has been getting more strategic in recent months. This has involved cutting down on the number of projects in the works as it battles worries of oversaturating the genre with too much content.
What doesn’t help the show’s odds is that the series’ executive producer Kevin Wright has hinted that there are no active plans for a third season. In an interview with Collider, Wright described the first two seasons of Loki as two chapters of the same book with season 2 looking to close the story introduced in the first season.
"It was similar to Season 1 in we wanted to tell this story and tell it well, but even in Season 1, we obviously were thinking about where we were going. I would say Season 1 and Season 2 were developed and created as, like, kind of two chapters of the same book. We felt pretty strongly, all of us involved, that Season 2 was about closing that book but that there are many other books on the shelf for this character and for this world. But this felt like it wanted to be the conclusion of these great things that we set up in Season 1. We don’t want to constantly leave people with drastic cliffhangers for our finales."
While Wright hinted that a third season could happen, it seems the plan might have been for Loki to tell a two-season arc rather than to tell an arc that runs for three or five seasons.
Loki producer feels there are other stories to be told in a third season
Although executive producer Kevin Wright has hinted that the first two seasons of Loki were designed to be a complete story, he has played coy in teasing that there is a potential to still tell more stories with the characters at the heart of the show.
Whether that comes via a third season or as part of the broader MCU narrative remains unclear, but as Wright hinted to Deadline any continuation would bring new stories for the characters. Still, he did note that they take things season by season and are excited for what could be ahead for the characters:
"We take it season by season, and there are certainly things that Tom and I and other casts have talked about of where we see this going, and I know there’s some excitement for that internally, but just from a storytelling standpoint, I think we always conceived of seasons 1 and 2 as a whole. That these are two chapters of the same book, and that season two is finishing that book, and there are other stories to be told there, but I think they would be new books, if that’s not too coy."
Loki season 3 release date predictions
Should Disney+ by chance choose to renew Loki for a third season, fans could be in for a long wait to see what would come next for the God of Mischief. More than two years passed between the first and second seasons of the show with season 1 premiering in June 2021 and season 2 kicking off in October 2023.
With that timing in mind, it seems the absolute earliest a third season would be released would be sometime in 2025. A release in 2025 would put a third season ahead of the next Avengers movie which would see the Avengers assembling to fight Kang.
Given Kang was first introduced via the first season of Loki, a third season could continue to help bridge the gap and tee up the bigger battle with Kang. And a release in 2025 would put a potential third season of Loki out about a year before the currently planned release date for Avenger: The Kang Dynasty on May 1, 2026.
Loki season 3 cast predictions
While a third season of Loki has yet to be greenlit by Marvel, we have to imagine that if a third season of the show were to happen Marvel would look to bring back most of the key players from the show. Every key character from the show’s first season returned for season 2, so it seems highly likely that the season 2 cast would also be back for season 3.
Of course, you can’t have Loki without Loki himself which means that the actor most likely to return for a potential third season would be Tom Hiddleston. We’d also expect to see the show’s other key players back in action in some capacity either playing their existing characters or potentially a variant of their character.
Should Disney+ hand out a renewal, we expect the following actors to be a part of the season 3 cast in some capacity:
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie
- Owen Wilson as Mobius
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Judge Renslayer
- Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15
- Eugene Cordero as Casey
- Tara Strong as Miss Minutes
- Ke Huy Quan as Ouroboros
- Rafael Casal as X5
Jonathan Majors’ could be the only cast member not to return for Loki season 3
Across the first two seasons of Loki, Jonathan Majors has played a pivotal role first playing He Who Remains and then taking on the role of his variant Victor Timely. One would assume that if a third season of Loki was ordered, we would see some variant of Kang pop up in the season. What remains unclear is whether Majors will continue in the role.
As many know, Majors has been in the headlines due to his arrest in March and there have been a lot of discussions about whether he will continue to remain in the role of Kang within the MCU.
While Marvel has strayed from commenting on Marjos’ arrest or the rumors that have been circulating, a report from Variety in October 2023 suggested that Marvel was considering its options amid the ongoing personal and legal drama Majors is entangled in.
Per the report, Marvel has considered moving away from Kang as its central villain and has also entertained the idea of recasting the role of Kang in future projects. While no decision has been made, there is a chance Loki season 2 could be Majors’ last key moment in the role of Kang and that he might not be involved in a potential third season of the show.