Yeah. Similar non compete kinda thing probably applies to Chris playing in a DC film.
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DC can totally troll Marvel by casting Chris Hemsworth as Thor in a Wonder Woman film
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Yeah. Similar non compete kinda thing probably applies to Chris playing in a DC film.
Chris would only be self owning himself. His younger brother Liam though would be a good laugh since he was auditioning for Thor and sounds like he almost landed it back in the day too.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Disney and Marvel thought of this well before you did and included clauses in the contracts to stop things like this.
Thor is the english version of the name
His local name is Tor, not Thor
So the name problem could be solved
I rather have a Skarsgård in the role of Tor
His local name is Tor, not Thor
So the name problem could be solved
I rather have a Skarsgård in the role of Tor
Yes. Superman and Wonder Woman teamed up with Thor to fight in Ragnarok.
Wonder Woman regularly has interactions with all pantheons. Like Marvel, all Gods exist.
Thought you meant a separate actor named Chris Helmsworth. That would be funny. Petty, but funny.
Ignoring the obvious contractual clauses, ignoring Chris Hemsworth wanting to end his Disney career and with any of their owned studios, ignoring the complete and obvious troll (its not incidental), why on earth would DC, who have a hug back log of mythos to pull from, go down the rabbit hole of producing a film with an character in closely matching a character in their main rival's films? it wouldn't even get past a joke in a producers office. Honestly, can you seriously imagine them dropping $100million on a film with a character with so many legal complications that it might get shut down by an inevitable law suit almost the moment its public knowledge?
I've been a fan or Marvel and DC for 30 years and I've never understood the obsession with some fans over getting one up man ship or proving one is better than the other! Were fans we are getting spoilt with all the good (oh and a huge fuck ton of bad), sit back and enjoy it
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I've been a fan or Marvel and DC for 30 years and I've never understood the obsession with some fans over getting one up man ship or proving one is better than the other! Were fans we are getting spoilt with all the good (oh and a huge fuck ton of bad), sit back and enjoy it
Talk about thread backfire
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Granted, the thread's not going as well as I thought, I still am baffled by the contingent that thinks the reason I want this to get at Marvel (who I am a fan of) rather than the sheer awesomeness of having Hemsworth as Thor teaming up with Wonder Woman. LIke, the entire OP is me gushing over how awesome a cross over is and how I lament it can't happen and the point is that this could ahve been a loophole they could get around. Fine, I was wrong about that, but....it'd still be awesome if it happened, and that's the main takeaway imo.
Like, yeah, I get that Marvel would be pissed off at this, and that would be funny, which would make it a troll on part of DC, but as funny as it would be if it happened, I don't do it because I am rooting for DC to take down Marvel or whatever. Ultimately, I just want a Thor-Wonder Woman cross over.
It also sucks that copyright law is as fucked as it is. Because, yeah, you're right that it would bring legal trouble on Disney regardless, but....if they depict Thor as a distinct character from Marvel's Thor, then it should be artistic free game. They do not own the Mythological Thor. They could write him so that he's distinct from Marvel's Thor. That DC would get buried by Disney's legal team despite not being actual copyright infringement is a bad thing. Maybe I was too hasty in phrasing that DC can do this, but surely you'd agree that DC should be able to do this, right?
Question, we know that the Greek gods exist(ed) in the DC Universe, but do the Nordic or Egyptian Gods exist there as well? I'm asking as a complete casual in comic matters.
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Yup. They even had a storyline a couple years back where a small group of amazon side characters meet Thor and his pantheon. In both Marvel and DC, all myths are real.
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Is your conception that every troll is malicious? In this case, my conception of this here is that Marvel would be salty over the fact that DC would get to use a Not-real version of their character to promote a movie.
That's it. I'm not saying "Down with Marvel" or anything like that, it'd just be one instance of DC getting away with a legal loophole that'd be really funny and probably annoy marvel, but that's literally all.
Even if you do think this is malicious somehow,then it's malice targeted exclusively at the corporate aspect of Marvel, not the fandom or creators or the heroes they own, which is usually what fandoms get defensive about. If the troll is targeted to the corporate aspect of Marvel, who cares?
Fuck, if I didn't like both DC and Marvel, why would I even want a Marvel-esque Thor-WonderWoman cross over in the first place?
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I'd imagine there's a clause in his contract where he cannot play the character of Thor in any other production without Marvel's consent. Otherwise what's to stop someone like HBO or Netflix making a Thor TV show and getting guaranteed shit loads of hype by casting him.
At any case, I would be willing to bet that if he let his contract with Marvel expire it's because he wouldn't want to do more superhero movies, they're long and exhausting contracts.
Oh they do but they're understandably non-existent. I think Thor only really ever showed up to get mindcontrolled by Hitler once.
I'm a redheaded man in his 30s of some Scandinavian decent. They should cast me.
I'm not an actor I just want them to put me on that Chris Pratt workout plan, this virus mess is screwing with my diet.
I'm not an actor I just want them to put me on that Chris Pratt workout plan, this virus mess is screwing with my diet.
DC could also totally troll Marvel by having James Gunn direct one of their flicks, they would probably never recover from such ownage.
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