Loki director Kate Herron has revealed that some of the show's early drafts featured flashes of Agent Mobius' past life.
Speaking on ComicBook.com's Phase Zero podcast, Herron, who helmed all six episodes of Loki's first season, offered a fresh insight into the show's development process and revealed some of the plans that were initially on the table. She explained that early drafts of the script featured scenes that would have shown the former life of Owen Wilson's Mobius M. Mobius.
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"There were a few drafts of the script where you did see a family or you did see a life, but we all kind of decided we don't know what it is yet," she said. "I think that's exciting, right? Because it gives more road to travel with him. And I think it's more painful when he is going to be deleted, him saying, 'What if I had a family' Because, maybe he did or maybe he didn't."
Herron further explained the decision to write the character's backstory out of the script, saying it helped to amp up the tension for those working at the TVA. She said the story threads have been left "open for future exploration," though she doesn't know "where the writers will take his character" as she isn't returning for Loki's sophomore season.
This isn't the only scene that didn't make it to screen, either. The latest episode of Marvel's Assembled on The Making of Loki revealed the show's writers scrapped a montage that would have seen Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief getting up to some "crazy mischief," travelling to different time periods, collecting infinity stones, and having lots of sex.
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Parts of these scenes could yet be explored in one way or another in the show's second season, which has already been confirmed after a mid-credits scene in the Season 1 finale announced the renewal of the MCU Disney+ series, opening up a whole universe of exciting possibilities.
It's the first of Marvel's Disney+ series to officially announce a second season, with WandaVision unlikely to return, and The Falcon & the Winter Soldier currently billed as an ongoing series. While we don't know when Loki Season 2 might be released, we should perhaps expect a lot of other Marvel shows to come first.
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Speaking on ComicBook.com's Phase Zero podcast, Herron, who helmed all six episodes of Loki's first season, offered a fresh insight into the show's development process and revealed some of the plans that were initially on the table. She explained that early drafts of the script featured scenes that would have shown the former life of Owen Wilson's Mobius M. Mobius.
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"There were a few drafts of the script where you did see a family or you did see a life, but we all kind of decided we don't know what it is yet," she said. "I think that's exciting, right? Because it gives more road to travel with him. And I think it's more painful when he is going to be deleted, him saying, 'What if I had a family' Because, maybe he did or maybe he didn't."
Herron further explained the decision to write the character's backstory out of the script, saying it helped to amp up the tension for those working at the TVA. She said the story threads have been left "open for future exploration," though she doesn't know "where the writers will take his character" as she isn't returning for Loki's sophomore season.
This isn't the only scene that didn't make it to screen, either. The latest episode of Marvel's Assembled on The Making of Loki revealed the show's writers scrapped a montage that would have seen Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief getting up to some "crazy mischief," travelling to different time periods, collecting infinity stones, and having lots of sex.
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/07/21/marvel-studios-assembled-the-making-of-loki-official-trailer"]
Parts of these scenes could yet be explored in one way or another in the show's second season, which has already been confirmed after a mid-credits scene in the Season 1 finale announced the renewal of the MCU Disney+ series, opening up a whole universe of exciting possibilities.
It's the first of Marvel's Disney+ series to officially announce a second season, with WandaVision unlikely to return, and The Falcon & the Winter Soldier currently billed as an ongoing series. While we don't know when Loki Season 2 might be released, we should perhaps expect a lot of other Marvel shows to come first.
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Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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