Thor Could "Redefine" the Super Hero Movie
Posted 12.02.09 by Ryan
Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada was brought to Los Angeles for Thor pre-production meetings with director Kenneth Branagh. In a recent interview with ComicBookResources, Quesada said that Marvel is "incredibly confident" with the outcome of the adaptation of Thor.
If you're a comics fan, you'll have a preconceived notion of what you're going to get. If you're a non-comics fan, you'll have another notion of what the movie is all about. And what's really amazing is that both groups will walk away
going, "I've never seen anything like this before within the super hero genre." It's so cool, and I don't want to use the word unusual, but it is unusual in the sense that it redefines what a super hero movie can be.
The interview arrived on the heels of some leaked plot details, which suggest that Thor (Chris Hemsworth) will be sent to earth after his adopted brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) kills their father Odin (Anthony Hopkins). Once on earth, he will be literally run over by Natalie Portman, who is driving with her college professor (Stellan Skarsgard) to study a "strange cloud in the cosmos." The movie will end with a huge battle that will be shot first, when the production begins in mid-January in Los Angeles.
While none of the plot details are confirmed, they do seem to fit with Quesada's "unusual" claim. AICN also discovered, through a trusted source, that the movie will not make use of Thor's human alter-ego Donald Blake, a point of contention for many Thor fans.