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Locke & Key Comics Creators Offer Brief Update, Thoughts on Season 2

Last month, Darby Stanchfield (Nina), Emilia Jones (Kinsey), Connor Jessup (Tyler), and Jackson Robert Scott (Bode) took to social media to announce that production on the second season of Netflix's Locke & Key was underway. Since that time, we learned who will be joining the Lockes and who was getting promoted to series regulars (more on that below). Now, we're getting an update from comic book creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez and series editor Chris Ryall during their New York Comic Con-Metaverse virtual panel to promote the franchise's comics and graphic novel future. Here are some of the choice takeaways:

"Locke & Key season two is just underway… I believe they just started shooting a couple of weeks ago and so that's exciting that after the needed delay with the world situation that they're able to go back and safely tackle season two- so that's very exciting"

"I'm tremendously excited and so glad they're back up there shooting and that we get to tell more stories about Keyhouse and Netflix is making it happen."

"But you know, if I was to say anything about what's going to happen in the season, Netflix would land a black helicopter out behind the house and pull a sack over my head and I'd never be heard from again."

"But I will say that Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill just, you know, knocked it out of the park. I'm so excited by what they've done and, you know, I think it's going to be like season one times ten."

During an interview from earlier this year, co-showrunner Meredith Averill (with Carlton Cuse) detailed what she would change (and keep) if the series was assigned a second set of keys. Proudly preferring "suspense and tension" over "gory and graphic" when it comes to horror, Averill revealed that the second season would retain the first season's tone. But with the kids getting older and also more experienced with the keys and their powers, the topics, situations, and enemies they face will have to grow and deepen: "The first season, we always thought of as being the story of the kids learning that they're the new Keepers of the Keys. With season two, we want to explore what that responsibility means. What does it mean as they get closer to being 18 years old—the age when you age out of magic—what does that mean? What does that look like? We cover so much of the comics in the first season, but there's so much of the lore that we held back on and new keys we created for the show that we're excited to share."

Averill continued, "Tonally, I think we intend to keep the show the same, but we do want to deepen the characters' lives and the issues they're dealing with. The older kids are moving closer to their graduation, and while grief is something that you never fully let go of, the kids are going to be able to begin moving on because, at least for now, they know the truth of what happened to him. If you can believe it, the Locke kids are going to be dealing with things far heavier than the death of their father in season two."

Netflix's adaptation of the horror/fantasy comic book series Locke & Key focuses on the Locke siblings – Kinsey (Emilia Jones), Tyler (American Crime's Connor Jessup), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – who move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts with their mother Nina (Darby Stanchfield) after the gruesome murder of their father, only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Standing in their way is a devious demon who also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them. The first season also starred Petrice Jones, Thomas Mitchell Barnet, Laysla De Oliveira, Kevin Alves, Asha Bromfield, Griffin Gluck, Steven Williams, Felix Mallard, Coby Bird, Sherri Saum, and Eric Graise. Aaron Ashmore and Hallea Jones have been promoted to series regulars for the second season, with Brendan Hines (The Tick)as a new series regular and Liyou Abere (The Boys) guest-starring.

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