Comments on: Branagh Now Confirmed to Direct Thor?

By: wrecksracer

wrecksracer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:42:31 +0000

I wouldn’t mind a bit of the Ultimate Thor angle, where everybody thinks he’s crazy……”He thinks he’s a Norse God!”

By: MCM

MCM — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:14:46 +0000

According to what I’ve read “Thor” will take place entirely in Asgard in acient times. Unless they’ve made changes to the script there will be no Donald Blake or modern NY in the movie. But that was before the plan before the ‘Avengers’ movie was formed. Who knows what will happen now?

By: Annoyed Grunt

Annoyed Grunt — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:51:37 +0000

I’d say that this isn’t a good fit, but just about every good superhero movie was directed by someone who didn’t seem appropriate on paper.

By: Bat2supe

Bat2supe — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:43:11 +0000

I think that given the kind of material & what they want to do, it’s a good choice BUtT more importantly, it gives the Thor project a nice media exposition & the kind of expectation Marvel clearly anted for this project.

Like I said in a previous post, I find Marvel choices so far pretty clever.

You always have talented artists who are lacking some success at the time & wouldn’t be against a good blockbuster exposition, so they make prey of choice for Marvel ( Downey Jr, Howard & now Cheadle, Paltrow, Norton….)

By: Gibbering Fool

Gibbering Fool — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:29:52 +0000

I think the movie will have to deal with Thor’s origin and Asgard but will also have to deal with Thor on Earth, since he’s going to be part of the Avengers later on. Perhaps a blending of Thor’s origin and his current series? Loki could banish all the gods from Asgard with a spell, trapping them in human forms on Earth and making them forget their godhood. Donald Blake somehow find his cane, becomes Thor, free some of the other gods from human form and goes forth to kick Loki’s tail in Asgard.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:50:06 +0000

Have you seen Henry V? If Branagh can bring that sense of “YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” to the piece, I’m all in. And you know he can direct a serious period piece and bring it grandeur, which I’m guessing this will be; all Asgard, all the time. Now if they can just bring Simonson in as a creative consultant, that would truly rock.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:41:50 +0000

Wouldn’t it be funny to see the movie version of Thor turning into a frog, Simonson-style?

By: John

John — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:19:16 +0000

The big question for me is does this mean Branagh will play Donald Blake and HHH is Thor because that might be the suckiest thing in the history of suck.

By: Aqualad

Aqualad — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:51:46 +0000

I hope it’s as groin-grabbingly awesome as “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

By: vynsane

vynsane — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:39:53 +0000

my trepidation is how do you transition smoothly from what is obviously going for a high-brow, high-concept solo film to “the avengers”? if they give branagh creative free-reign on the solo (and they should…) it’s going to be rather epic and “classical” feeling. i don’t see a good way for them to make the two concepts meld unless branagh is also going to do “the avengers”, or at least an active participant therein.

of course, this is all MAJOR speculation, but that’s just my gut reaction.

By: Thunderbeard

Thunderbeard — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:30:05 +0000

I hope we get Skurge.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:03:43 +0000

I hope that whatever they do in the Thor film, they:

a) keep it cosmic

b) set it up so that the subsequent movies can get to the Simonson/Surtur Saga type stuff ASAP

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:55:40 +0000

I’m sorry, that was too confrontational. But he ought to fight the Stone Men of Saturn, I think, even if I just heard of them from your post.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:54:27 +0000

Why the hell not?

By: R. J. Sterling

R. J. Sterling — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:40:40 +0000

What kind of Thor story could the movie tell? His origin? Then what? Surely he won’t fight the Stone Men of Saturn.

By: T.

T. — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:31:43 +0000

And the â€œwowâ€ is due to the confirmation of Branagh actually directing Thor.

Oh. Why exactly?

By: Thunderbeard

Thunderbeard — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:20:13 +0000

I’m really excited to see Branagh’s Thor. Totally epic.

By: Tom from West Chester

Tom from West Chester — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:09:31 +0000

Brannagh has already done Hamlet as a film starring himself anyway, so I imagine the opportunity to direct Thor instead is something more challenging (and lucrative) than directing something he has already done, and done well at that. Although directing Jude Law on stage I’m sure would have its own set of challenges.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:38:11 +0000

A play production of Hamlet, not a film.

And the “wow” is due to the confirmation of Branagh actually directing Thor.

By: T.

T. — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:36:52 +0000

I don’t really think it’s so “wow” to drop out of directing Jude Law in Hamlet in favor of Thor. It makes a lot of sense actually. Subject matter is regal enough to make a respectable picture out of. Jude Law is pretty much box office poison despite his fame, so it would probably have flopped, and Hamlet’s been done to death anyhow. Marvel pics are hot now thanks to Iron Man and this movie will directly tie in to Iron Man somehow thanks to the shared movie universe deal, so he’d be dumb to choose Jude Law’s Hamlet over this.